Examples of “elevator” in a Sentence

noun A machine that carries people or goods up and down between floors of a building.

• The hotel elevator is slow, so I often take the stairs instead.
• We took the elevator to the top floor.
• The elevator was out of service, so we had to use the stairs.

noun A tall structure used to store and load grain.

• The old grain elevator towered over the little town beside the railway.
• Farmers delivered their wheat to the elevator at the edge of the village.
• Trucks lined up outside the grain elevator during harvest season.