LIFT in a Sentence

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286 example sentences for LIFT, such as:

1. The lift doesn't operate properly.
2. And lift me deepening down to doom.
3. Please give me a lift onto the saddle.
4. He is strong enough to lift that rock.
5. I haven't the strength to lift this table.

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 Meanings and Examples of LIFT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lift
 v.  raise to a higher position or level
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Zeena, who had gone back to her seat by the stove, did not lift her head from her book as he passed.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  Mattie followed him out of the door and helped him to lift the trunk into the back of the sleigh.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  "My husband is in Virginia," said Melly with a proud lift of her head.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  The old men and boys of the Home Guard marched by, the graybeards almost too weary to lift their feet, the boys wearing the faces of tired children, confronted too early with adult problems.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  After all--after all, Melanie had dragged herself from bed so soon after having a baby and had come to her aid with a weapon too heavy even for her to lift.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  He remembered the way she had squared her shoulders when she turned away from him that afternoon, remembered the stubborn lift of her head.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
7  Yesterday, in the pouring rain, he had those three children, even the baby, mind you, out in his carriage riding them up and down Peachtree Street and he gave me a lift home.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
8  She could not herself have explained the sense of buoyancy which seemed to lift and swing her above the sun-suffused world at her feet.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
9  In six months you'd be back again among your old worries, or worse ones; and here I am, ready to lift you out of 'em tomorrow if you say so.'
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
10  The external aspect of the situation had vanished for him as completely as for her: he felt it only as one of those rare moments which lift the veil from their faces as they pass.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
11  And lift me deepening down to doom.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
12  But my whole clock's run down; my heart the all-controlling weight, I have no key to lift again.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38. Dusk.
13  If we bend down our eyes, the dark vale shows her mouldy soil; but if we lift them, the bright sun meets our glance half way, to cheer.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
14  The band is working loose and the lee lift is half-stranded.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 120. The Deck Towards the End of the First Night ...
15  You is just like big mans; you wait for him lift his head and then you go for him.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
Example Sentence: (76 in 6 pages)
16  First we have to lift the level of instruction.
17  Striking lorry drivers agreed to lift their blockades of main roads.
18  Please give me a lift onto the saddle.
19  The lift won't move if the safety gate isn't shut properly.
20  The rocket is due to lift off at noon on Friday.
21  It was pouring with rain so I accepted his offer of a lift.
22  Oh, Douglas - be a sport and give me a lift to the station.
23  We tried to lift the rock but it wouldn't budge.
24  He is strong enough to lift that rock.
25  He couldn't lift the table and no more could I.
26  I haven't the strength to lift this table.
27  The lift doesn't operate properly.
28  A lever is a bar, with which you can pry or lift greater weights or apply greater force.
29  When I saw him lift and poise the book and stand in act to hurl it, I instinctively started aside with a cry of alarm.
30  We don't know if we're going down to the ground floor or to the basement or whether the entire lift shaft is empty and we're plunging to our doom.