[
UK
/mˈaɪnʃɑːft/
]
NOUN
- excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine
How To Use mineshaft In A Sentence
- They threw the bodies down a mineshaft, only to discover that it was too shallow. Times, Sunday Times
- The workers were digging at an abandoned mineshaft that was depleted of commercial reserves.
- It took three hours of climbing to reach the top where a sign warned of mineshafts.
- He says in the 1950's there were plans to dump nuclear waste in mineshafts.
- Fred had already dug seven metres of a mineshaft at his Grade II listed home when councillors refused him retrospective planning permission after complaints from neighbours.
- Skippy was just explaining to the park ranger the whereabouts of the lost boy in the mineshaft, when we heard the blast.
- Curiously, Yang avoids the claustrophobic tension of the mineshaft.
- As part of the work, deep mineshafts and an underground canal system will be made safe.
- There is enough money to keep the mineshafts open until next Tuesday, but after that the colliery will have to be ‘capped’ unless further funds can be found.
- As she lies bleeding, caked in mud and freezing in the dark mineshaft, the rescue teams search fruitlessly for her. The Sun
