How to Use shaft in a Sentence

shaft

1 of 2 noun

• The robot-makers are a shaft of light at the bottom of the well.
  — Kat McGowan, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2024
• The tall version also solves the issue of a low shaft height.
  — Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• For styling, use a 1 & 1/4-inch curling iron at the roots and mid shaft to give it a bend and leave the ends straight.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Mar. 2023
• Then flip the file 90-degrees and smooth out any rough areas on the nail shaft.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2023
• The eastern side of the shaft is 350 feet tall, its grid of square windows stacked in a dark blue skin.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Oct. 2022
• The Michelle Suede Classic Boot has a tall shaft to keep your shins and ankles cozy.
  — Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 1 Oct. 2023
• With a 7-inch shaft, these boots are tall enough to keep you warm, but not too bulky for your commute.
  — Grace Wu, Good Housekeeping, 14 Nov. 2022
• Built with a 100% carbon fiber shaft, the pole folds (Z-style) to just over a foot to stash just about anywhere.
  — Lindsey Lapointe, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• The opposing forces make the coil spin quickly, turning the drive shaft, which makes the wheels go round.
  — Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
• The cleaning kit includes a bristle brush and a scraper that helps clean the blades, discs, and shaft.
  — Michelle Love, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2023
• Off one tunnel shaft was a cage made with metal bars and a door that locked from the outside.
  — NBC News, 8 Feb. 2024
• To address the problem, Craig would need a grease gun, a tool that helps lubricate the drive shaft.
  — Katherine Rosman Lanna Apisukh, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• The plungers are powered by an output shaft on the engine or from a motor.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2023
• This classic style has an 8-inch shaft with a 14-inch opening.
  — Nicola Fumo, Peoplemag, 31 Dec. 2023
• As Hazel mines, a few people sit behind the drill shaft atop of a cocoon of wires and metal.
  — Ricky Carioti, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• To keep pits and mine shafts dry, and also to process ore, Barrick pulls huge volumes of water out of the ground.
  — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• The fractures and scars show that they were distally hafted – attached to the split end of a shaft.
  — Laure Metz, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2023
• Now's a great time to grab yourself a pair of winter essentials like the tall leather shaft boots.
  — Maura Jenkins, Glamour, 27 Nov. 2023
• Strain on rotor shaft The torque meter measures the strain on the rotor shaft.
  — Ned Rozell | Alaska Science, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023
• This meant that Herring and Rambo needed to move forward from the air shaft.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• An aluminum shaft helps make Garant’s Yukon the lightest shovel in our test by over a quarter of a pound.
  — Adrienne Donica, Popular Mechanics, 22 Nov. 2022
• For your scrotum and shaft, go extra slow and stretch the skin to flatten it and make easier to trim.
  — Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 20 July 2023
• When the motor's shaft spins, the washer throws it off-balance, making the whole motor—and the brush along with it—vibrate and move.
  — Rachelle Doorley, Parents, 16 Aug. 2023
• In front of a wall of Catholic icons in gold frames, the smoke of copal, the Mesoamerican incense, cut swirls through shafts of sunlight.
  — Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2024
• For prostate stimulation, Lee says a pick with a curved shaft and bulbous head will hit the right spot.
  — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 19 Nov. 2023
• There were pipes, stairs and a giant shaft that went nowhere — relics from 130 years of building and rebuilding.
  — William J. Broad George Etheredge, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
• The clubs feature a lighter head weight, and a unique construction with a more delicate shaft and grip.
  — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
• Dealers will inspect the left rear axle shaft date code and replace the axle shaft as necessary, free of charge.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
• The researchers uncovered a stack of spears with shafts over 10 feet (3 meters) long at the site, and many experts think that warfare was common in the time period.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
• Six of those cases were confirmed to have damaged or worn out intermediate shafts.
  — William Gavin, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024

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shaft

2 of 2 verb

• You really got shafted in that deal.
• How can the Bulldogs get to the second weekend, fans ask, if they are shafted in their seed line?
  — David Woods, Indianapolis Star, 10 Mar. 2018
• Every team has one or two players who have been shafted by the system.
  — Paul Dehner Jr., Cincinnati.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• Lind’s heart genuinely hurts for those shafted by oligarchy.
  — New York Times, 17 Jan. 2020
• Part of the problem, experts say, is that health care fraud is often misunderstood as shafting greedy insurers — not the folks paying for health insurance.
  — Marshall Allen, ProPublica, 19 July 2019
• The unfounded hostility to that film basically killed its release and then shafted the chances of the movie and of Ryan Gosling’s contemplative performance in the awards races.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2019
• Only a socialist could do that to his brother, only a socialist could regard familial ties as being so trivial as to shaft his own brother.
  — Julia Webster, Time, 5 Sep. 2019
• But some of the same forces that contributed to Trump’s victory here feed the skepticism over the tax bill — a sense that working people are getting shafted, a jaded view of Washington, and deep skepticism toward Congress.
  — Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2017
• For one, Wonder Woman was completely shafted, as was the sublimely hilarious Girls Trip.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 11 Dec. 2017
• Do your research, ask questions and go over every detail personally to avoid being shafted or misinformed.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2019
• The government was forced to redraft certain settlements with owners after shafting them by not accounting for valuable nearby water rights.
  — James Warren, The Hive, 14 Dec. 2017
• Almost all the pillars of President Trump's presidency — immigration, jobs, mistrust of allies, coloring Washington as a feckless, greedy swamp — can be traced back to one of his core beliefs: America is getting shafted by the rest of the world.
  — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2017
• Its longtime token black character, John Diggle, sees his character development continually shafted to make room for Oliver Queen’s brooding sessions.
  — Clarkisha Kent, The Root, 11 Sep. 2017
• You really got shafted in that deal.
• How can the Bulldogs get to the second weekend, fans ask, if they are shafted in their seed line?
  — David Woods, Indianapolis Star, 10 Mar. 2018
• Every team has one or two players who have been shafted by the system.
  — Paul Dehner Jr., Cincinnati.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• Lind’s heart genuinely hurts for those shafted by oligarchy.
  — New York Times, 17 Jan. 2020
• Part of the problem, experts say, is that health care fraud is often misunderstood as shafting greedy insurers — not the folks paying for health insurance.
  — Marshall Allen, ProPublica, 19 July 2019
• The unfounded hostility to that film basically killed its release and then shafted the chances of the movie and of Ryan Gosling’s contemplative performance in the awards races.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2019
• Only a socialist could do that to his brother, only a socialist could regard familial ties as being so trivial as to shaft his own brother.
  — Julia Webster, Time, 5 Sep. 2019
• But some of the same forces that contributed to Trump’s victory here feed the skepticism over the tax bill — a sense that working people are getting shafted, a jaded view of Washington, and deep skepticism toward Congress.
  — Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2017
• For one, Wonder Woman was completely shafted, as was the sublimely hilarious Girls Trip.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 11 Dec. 2017
• Do your research, ask questions and go over every detail personally to avoid being shafted or misinformed.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2019
• The government was forced to redraft certain settlements with owners after shafting them by not accounting for valuable nearby water rights.
  — James Warren, The Hive, 14 Dec. 2017
• Almost all the pillars of President Trump's presidency — immigration, jobs, mistrust of allies, coloring Washington as a feckless, greedy swamp — can be traced back to one of his core beliefs: America is getting shafted by the rest of the world.
  — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2017
• Its longtime token black character, John Diggle, sees his character development continually shafted to make room for Oliver Queen’s brooding sessions.
  — Clarkisha Kent, The Root, 11 Sep. 2017

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