HOIST in a Sentence

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50 example sentences for HOIST, such as:

1. You hoist a flag when you pull it to the top of its pole.
2. A helicopter hoisted the final section of the bridge into place.
3. He drew up the rocker, hoisted his slippered feet on the rail, and proceeded to smoke a cigar.
4. That done, if it belong to a small whale it is hoisted on deck to be deliberately disposed of.
5. It was indeed a clever plan to entrap his opponent, but in the end he was hoist by his own petard.

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 Meanings and Examples of HOIST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hoist
 v.  raise; lift; elevate
Classic Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1  So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ...
2  These last now hoist the bucket within grasp of the Indian, to whom another person has reached up a very long pole.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets.
3  Then arranging his person in the basket, he gave the word for them to hoist him to his perch, Starbuck being the one who secured the rope at last; and afterwards stood near it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 130. The Hat.
4  At once he gave directions that his engineers should construct a machine to hoist up these two extraordinary men out of the kingdom.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
5  The station agent hoisted a dead calf aboard the baggage-car.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  He commanded the upper sails to be well hoisted, sheeted home anew, and every way expanded to the breeze.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
7  Killed and hoisted on deck for the sake of his skin, one of these sharks almost took poor Queequeg's hand off, when he tried to shut down the dead lid of his murderous jaw.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 66. The Shark Massacre.
8  That done, if it belong to a small whale it is hoisted on deck to be deliberately disposed of.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
9  Meantime, the hoisted sperm whale's head jogged about very violently, and Gabriel was seen eyeing it with rather more apprehensiveness than his archangel nature seemed to warrant.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
10  Nimble as a cat, Tashtego mounts aloft; and without altering his erect posture, runs straight out upon the overhanging mainyard-arm, to the part where it exactly projects over the hoisted Tun.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets.
11  This place has previously been mentioned as the receptacle for the blanket-pieces, when stript and hoisted from the whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand.
12  Besides her hoisted boats, an American whaler is outwardly distinguished by her try-works.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
13  Trumpet to mouth, the old man was standing in his hoisted quarter-boat, his ivory leg plainly revealed to the stranger captain, who was carelessly reclining in his own boat's bow.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 100. Leg and Arm.
14  However it was, his orders were executed; and the Burtons were hoisted.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 109. Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin.
15  He drew up the rocker, hoisted his slippered feet on the rail, and proceeded to smoke a cigar.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XI
Example Sentence:
1  You hoist a flag when you pull it to the top of its pole.
2  The students were hoist by their own petards, however, as Granada decided to transmit the programme anyway.
3  It was indeed a clever plan to entrap his opponent, but in the end he was hoist by his own petard.
4  We laid low and kept still, and never shoved out till nearly ten o'clock; then we slid by, pretty wide away from the town, and didn't hoist our lantern till we was clear out of sight of it.
5  We slid by, pretty wide away from the town, and didn't hoist our lantern till we was clear out of sight of it.
6  A helicopter hoisted the final section of the bridge into place.