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How to use the word elevators in a Sentence?

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Living in a walk-up apartment rather than a building with elevators probably won't feel that different when you are young, but it can save a lot of money.

Lamar Watson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I looked to the left, and the apartment is half sheared off. I looked right ahead, which is where the elevators are supposed to be, it was just two empty elevator shafts, thankfully, the emergency exit light to the staircase was lit up, so we sprinted to the staircase and opened that door, only to realize that the wall had partially collapsed there. At that moment, it really hit me that we were racing against time to get to the bottom of the building before the entire thing came down.

Albert Aguero

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The data doesn't look good, fewer people are taking the elevators than we expected.

Jiang Zhonggen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Then we saw two of the attackers firing at the elevators and we turned back, they were firing twice at each of the elevator doors and the two staircase doors on each floor as they walked up the building. One of them fired at our office doors, entered slightly and then moved on.

Hiram Macharia

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Everyone's coming up with contingency plans, the elevators and cooperatives, they have all these orders they're obligated to fulfill. ... They're worried about filling these orders.

Mike Steenhoek

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Government can ensure that we share schools and streets and lunch counters and buses and elevators and theaters, but let us never forget that only God can give us the power to love each other and to respect each other and to share life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee

Found on CNN
8 years ago

People were urinating off the balconies, throwing up in the elevators, making suggestive and sexual comments about veterans with their service dogs and derogatory and suggestive comments about their wives.

Linda Cope

Found on CNN
9 years ago

There was poop inside the elevators, in the carpeted hallways, up on the roof, they're lazy, I guess.

Erin Atkinson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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