into a/the shaft
Frequency: 7.010.5 per million words
Indicates movement from outside to inside a shaft.
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Examples (10)
- He accidentally fell into the shaft during the excavation.
- The rescue team carefully lowered a camera into the narrow shaft.
- Miners use a hoist to send materials into the mine shaft.
- She cautiously peered into the dark shaft below, trying to see its depth.
- Water began to pour into the ventilation shaft after the heavy storm.
- They had to climb into the deep shaft to inspect the damage.
- A heavy object was accidentally dropped into the abandoned shaft.
- The engineers planned to build an access tunnel into the main shaft.
- Light streamed into the vertical shaft from an opening above.
- The divers plunged into the water-filled shaft to explore the underwater cave system.