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Sentence Examples
| So sure was the midfielder that he had scored, he wheeled away, arm aloft in triumph, but the ball hit a post and rebounded back. |
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| On the east side, held aloft by concrete flying buttresses, the debating chamber also addresses the landscape. |
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| The catering crew weaved around the room with snacks and munchies held aloft on platters. |
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| They actually went aloft, set top-gallant-sails, royals, and skysails, and trimmed the yards to the quartering breeze. |
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| I remembered when my father once climbed those rings when we were moving under full sail to free some tangled rigging aloft. |
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| He crossed the finishing line beaming broadly and with arms raised aloft in a victory salute. |
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| Her attentive entourage lifted her aloft, further emphasizing her height, and whirled about her in a flurried frenzy. |
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| A swarm of seagulls circle aloft, darting down in random attempts to steal a flounder. |
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| When carried aloft in the form of a flaming torch, a light is a symbol of victory and leadership. |
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| He put a match to an ancient smoke flare, which he'd brought to signal our success to friends below, and held it aloft. |
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| He carries a pickaxe in his left hand and holds a lighted torch aloft in his right. |
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| Fifty years after that first, fateful visit to Recreation Park, he saw silverware raised aloft. |
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| Instead, with her final throw she produced her season's best and held her arms aloft. |
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| Bees fans at the game will be asked to hold the red card aloft as the players enter the pitch, thus showing the red card to Noades. |
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| But the play was ruled a catch, as Perez attempted to dupe the umps by holding his glove aloft. |
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| Little kids held their figures aloft, and mommy and daddy beamed at how their kids were identifying with the soldiers. |
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| A photograph of the new Russian champion holding aloft the title belt after the fight was even submitted, complete with black eye. |
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| And your Arthur, I mind, was one of the four men to go aloft to clew it up. |
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| Albatrosses were already aloft, with occasional tropicbirds weaving between them. |
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| Mary sails stoically aloft, umbrella out, against a twilit London skyline towards a horizontal beyond, pregnant with venturesome possibility. |
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| Powerful lights made their white surplices glow like neon, and the pulpitted priest seemed to be borne aloft on a cloud of pure radiance. |
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| A sun dog is refracted sunlight through ice crystals aloft which creates little bright spots close to the sun's orb. |
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| She was very heavily sparred, with a skysail on the main and stunsail booms aloft. |
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| Then a hermit crab marched past, holding aloft a pale anemone in its pincers as if to turn it into some sort of hat. |
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| Nadia Comaneci held the Olympic Torch aloft on top of the Millennium Dome in Greenwich with former basketball ace John Amaechi. |
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| It was like a hang-glider, carried aloft by currents of warm air, coming to believe it could defy gravity forever. |
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| Day 1 was stormy, rain cells dumping near launch and downwind, north winds aloft. |
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| Arms aloft, hips swaying, feet shuffling every which way, he was the talk of the dance floor at York's Gallery Nightclub. |
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| They are pictured as happy students borne aloft on gusts of mirth from their adoring audiences. |
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| Successfully aloft, the ship is unable to break free of the gravitational pull of the unwelcome comet. |
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| A putto, holding aloft a long, thorned stem, which is topped by a tiny house, seems to imply a whole mythic structure. |
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| Airplanes turn while remaining aloft primarily by controlling the positions of ailerons mounted on horizontally oriented wings. |
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| Hopping aboard my Zellers-purchased Ridge Racer, flipping the kickstand aloft and drifting out into the Kanata streets en route to work. |
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| The frail craft, though buffeted by violent winds and sudden air pockets, stayed aloft. |
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| It is believed they can sleep while in flight, gliding on air currents and staying aloft without flapping for hours or even days at a time. |
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| The albatross has flown-the responsibility now rests on the observers of today and tomorrow to ensure it stays aloft. |
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| The applause intensified as a beaming Amir appeared on-screen, his arms raised aloft in a victorious stance. |
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| Then, all you have do is reel it in, lift your prize aloft, smile and get your photograph taken. |
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| To have the ship's company clearly visible on deck, or in the days of sail, aloft on the yards, meant that the guns were not manned. |
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| Jesus held his hand aloft above his eyes, so as to shield his vision from the glare of the sun, and blew wind through his lips. |
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| Crafted in silver and gilt, the 60-cm high trophy features a golden globe held aloft by three silver columns. |
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| The flag should never be carried flat or horizontally, but always aloft and free. |
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| Key seemed too dumbfounded at the fusion to do anything more than keep himself aloft above the pool. |
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| Crewmembers were working aloft when we recorded this and using those gantlines to hoist tools and materials up to them. |
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| It seems likely that the two songsters resented this influx of visitors and were proclaiming their territory from aloft. |
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| At the end of the service many among the crowd fought back tears as, scarves aloft, they sang the Anfield anthem You'll Never Walk Alone. |
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| With this, he walked into the water, the hat held aloft so it wouldn't get wet. |
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| I was woken, however, by the light of a candle being held aloft above my face, and the sight of Gerald peering down at me anxiously. |
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| The man eventually agreed to come down after more than 16 hours sitting aloft in freezing temperatures and rain. |
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| A man walks by, holding an empty Molson's Canadian beer carton aloft like a flag. |
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| We hustled to pack up our tables and bags and, holding our tents aloft, started marching. |
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| Nevertheless, persistence paid off, and man was finally able to soar aloft with improved gliding equipment. |
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| I have trained 8 Ordinary Seaman on how to properly tend my lines when I am aloft and have trained them how to safely rig the gantlines. |
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| It's amazing and while in flight, I'm always skeptical that the plane is going to remain aloft. |
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| The 5ft-wingspan model could lead to the development of pilotless aircraft that can stay aloft indefinitely. |
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| Each time the crowd surges, I'm completely off my feet, the pressure of the pack keeping me aloft. |
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| I approached the fridge yesterday morning at breakfast with my arm aloft to pluck the box of choice from the cereal Manhattan above. |
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| He addressed the sailor that was aloft clutching the rigging for dear life. |
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| Hornblower was about to return topside when the men from aloft scampered down the companionway. |
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| Once at sea, cast your eyes aloft, there will be a dozen or more sailors swinging about in the rigging adjusting sails. |
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| If you are thinking about buying a sailboat, ask the surveyor if the rigging will be inspected aloft or from the deck. |
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| Then, with all her sails, light and heavy, and studding sails on each side, alow and aloft, she is the most glorious moving object in the world. |
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| This was an airplane that could take off and stay aloft as long as the fuel supply lasted, make turns and so forth. |
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| Swagger and arrogance is all very well but until that huge European Cup is hoisted aloft it is merely bluster and bravado. |
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| I asked if I could fly one, and the young men of the family good-naturedly let me hold the string of a kite that was already aloft. |
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| Leading the procession and holding the cross aloft were Mrs. Anne Enright from the western side and Patrick Egan from Tarmons side. |
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| Our gantlines, which are permanently rigged, are three strand Roblon and sized to be sufficiently strong for the purpose of sending people and gear aloft. |
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| There was a sense of standing together on the precipice, but holding each other aloft by sheer will, conjoined by rage. |
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| When Clay held the world title aloft, Lipsyte saw in the gleam of the belt sports and '60s social upheaval and his own careerism. |
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| The Xero Experience begins with specialized cosmonaut training from Soyuz bound radioactive space monkeys, then heads aloft for 90 blissful minutes of weightlessness. |
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| He is fond of waving aloft his well-thumbed copy of the UN charter. |
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| The bird has extremely acute vision, ranges widely in search of prey, protects its territory without compromise and remains aloft for long periods of time. |
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| I pulled myself aloft into the cab, steadied my nerves with a few deep breaths, checked the wing mirror, which is the size of a widescreen television, and pulled away. |
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| Predictably, her worst critics have come out with Bibles held aloft. |
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| Many held aloft signs, waved flags or held multi coloured balloons. |
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| This was the scene when more than 500 staff from Motorola held cards aloft to create a huge red nose as part of a fundraising bid for Comic Relief. |
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| Back outside, tiny Icelandic ponies were prancing around the ring, their riders holding aloft banners like some form of Lilliputian cavalry charge. |
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| Like balloons, the birds were meant to be able to carry a human aloft in a gilded cage. |
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| As the ashet is held aloft, they proudly stride around the room. |
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| Orders were then given to set the jib and maintopmast staysail, and the former was set but the latter could not be, as the halyards were foul aloft. |
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| He saw the soldiers and the land-girls, the silver sausage shapes of the barrage balloons in the sky, the occasional flight of marauder or defender aeroplanes droning aloft. |
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| By using thermals, gliders can stay aloft for hours without using power. |
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| Pop Life is kept aloft by an interweave of such connections between the art world and its financial support systems. |
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| There were massive air-raid precautions, trenches in public parks, barrage balloons aloft, and anti-aircraft weaponry deployed on public buildings. |
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| Italians are spilling on to the track in their thousands, a beaming rider is being held aloft and crowds of youths are bellowing out a victory song. |
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| He splattered the volley viciously with his left foot and, although McKenzie got a finger-stinging touch, he was still aloft as the ball birled in the netting. |
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| For years National Dance Week has been underwritten by dancewear manufacturers with the aim of keeping sales of leotards and ballet slippers aloft. |
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| Then, in unbounded joy, he leaped up into the arms of his handlers, who held him aloft while he punched the sky repeatedly, and the building shook. |
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| His stumpy tail held aloft is unmistakable even in the dark. |
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| Almost every piece of pasteboard from programmes to menus around the Old Course featured Lawrie holding the Claret Jug aloft after his Carnoustie triumph. |
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| Not only chairs, but comfortable sofas await those who climb aloft. |
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| A temperature inversion is enough to prevent the kind of mixing that is needed to overcome ground drag and transfer the momentum of winds aloft down to the surface. |
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| It's powering under bare poles on a day which is ideal for all sail aloft and, unless I've forgotten what she looks like, that's surely Crusty Lady Lily heading for the Gap. |
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| Black wings fluttered a hundred times a second to keep her aloft. |
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| As we had the wind free, the booms were run out, and all were aloft. |
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| Naturally, everyone liked the idea of a fighter but prices were more than prohibitive and, at the best, only one additional member besides the pilot could be taken aloft. |
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| Modern aircraft are equipped with devices that recirculate tired germs, keeping them aloft and breathable even hours after passengers have deplaned. |
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| Here, two ensembles of nine dancers mesh into tight circles as individuals hoist themselves aloft, top the mass and dismount, rejoining the group. |
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| However, replicas of the urn are often held aloft by victorious teams as a symbol of their victory in an Ashes series. |
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| On 13 December 1913 through 17 December 1913 Hugo Kaulen stayed aloft for 87 hours. |
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| The sun spun aloft, an erumpent orb of balling glory thrilling the blue sky with its brilliance. |
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| In aeronautics, a balloon is an unpowered aerostat, which remains aloft or floats due to its buoyancy. |
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| Mainsail furling has an additional disadvantage in that its complicated gear may somewhat increase weight aloft. |
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| Peter Taylor easily outflew the original time of 18 minutes 18 seconds, keeping his kites aloft for an incredible 50 minutes and 48 seconds. |
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| Philippakis watched the finale standing aloft a speaker stack, silhouetted by strobe lights, looking just about as triumphant as they sounded. |
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| So what did the BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation man say as he held the trophy aloft? |
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| Bothwick, who joins Saracens next season, was carried aloft by his jubilant teammates after a titanic tussle in appalling conditions. |
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| To the news that Kate Moss this week hired a body double who was at least half her age I lift a glass aloft and drink from it gutsily. |
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| Like our Lady Liberty, the Egyptian version featured a woman holding aloft a torch. |
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| From Buin Lieutenant Kawamata took aloft at 0850 fifteen Zero 32s from the 6th Air Group, reported inbound at 1017 by Kennedy. |
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| Extratropical cyclones tend to form east of climatological trough positions aloft near the east coast of continents, or west side of oceans. |
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| I think you said something concerning the manner in which yonder ship has anchored, and of the condition they keep things alow and aloft? |
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| A second area of wind divergence aloft occurs ahead of embedded shortwave troughs, which are of smaller wavelength. |
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| Within the field of meteorology, atmospheric divergence aloft occurs in two areas. |
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| Many had the bald-headed sail rigging, so crews would not have to go aloft in the winds to do dangerous reefings. |
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| As part of the Hadley cell circulation, surface air flows toward the equator while the flow aloft is towards the poles. |
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| We sprang aloft and double reefed the topsails, and furled all the other sails, and made all snug. |
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| He noticed that he still held the knife aloft and brought his arm down, replacing the blade in the sheath. |
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| With high weight aloft and no deep keel, junks were known to capsize when lightly laden due to their high centre of gravity. |
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| Oh, none but cowards send down their brain-trucks in tempest time. What a hooroosh aloft there! |
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| Once aloft, air flows away from the storm's center, producing a shield of cirrus clouds. |
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| I take up the shovel and hold it aloft like a gidgee, but the centipede has disappeared. |
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| When launching an assertive attack, red foxes approach directly rather than sideways, with their tails aloft and their ears rotated sideways. |
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| Shoes that are stitched aloft go through the same operations as the channel-stitched shoes, with the exception that the rounding machine contrivance of cutting is eliminated. |
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| Worldwide, tropical cyclone activity peaks in late summer, when the difference between temperatures aloft and sea surface temperatures is the greatest. |
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| Nobody had flown beside an osprey, painted by Audubon as if seen aloft by a companion bird, gripping a fish in its talons and opening its beak in midcry. |
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| The horse flung most potently, making his heels fly aloft in the air. |
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| Though some filleting of the number of songs wouldn't have gone amiss, their power to get the audience on its feet, glow sticks held aloft, is irresistible. |
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| The torch was at the World Heritage site's hexagonal columns of rock, held aloft by Denis Broderick high above the Atlantic on Carrick a Rede rope bridge. |
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| Our good master keeps his kites up to the last moment, studding-sails alow and aloft, and, by incessant straight steering, never loses a rod of way. |
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| Hail is common with many of the thunderstorms in the state, as there is often a marked contrast in temperature of warmer ground conditions compared to the cold air aloft. |
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| Title track Salute is a contemporary take on girl power, About The Boy and Mr Loverboy have a nice 90s feel and These Four Walls is the big phones aloft singalong ballad. |
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| European airlines will have to cut costs at existing short-haul businesses to compete with budget airlines or struggle to stay aloft, IAG boss Willie Walsh said. |
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| A group of buck-naked rowers, oars aloft, might do it though. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| There was no mention of the oddity of behavior of shiploads of surplus grain aloft. |
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| A good look-out was kept for men, from aloft, but none were seen from any of the vessels. |
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| Saying no word, out of his lair he came with that terrible sword of his aloft. |
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| Rucker's headin' in from the kitchen, bearin' aloft a platter of ham an' cabbage. |
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| The gyrocopter that could carry them aloft, out of the rout, was fifty feet away. |
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| Up the rigging and down the stays, alow and aloft, out on the flying jib-boom and along the hammock nettings. |
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| She was a brigantine aloft, but alow she had much the same lines as the Laughing Lass. |
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| No flagpoles rose aloft, up which antennas wires could be hoisted in the guise of halyards. |
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| Some of these bullets have punctured the old bag aloft, as sure as you live. |
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| How did that kind of fooling strike the 'kits' and the Indian bandsman up aloft, wondered Roy. |
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| Whirled down the sky like black maple leaves caught up aloft, came two more crows. |
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| The man stepped to the nearest tree, slipped his calipers on it breast-high, then glanced aloft. |
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| He holds aloft the coir string, under the lower end of which a cocoanut has been placed on the ground. |
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| Then he wheeled quickly, ran across the flight deck and hurried up aloft to the flight bridge. |
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| Jim and I were sent aloft to the fore-topgallant sailyard to furl the sail. |
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| Just then, as I was looking aloft, I saw a bird pitch on the fore-topgallant yard-arm. |
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| Hands were sent aloft to fish the foreyard, and to knot and splice the most important parts of the running rigging. |
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| Perez considered them by the light of the lantern that Gil held aloft for him. |
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| He bore the gonfanon boldly, high aloft in the breeze, and rode by the duke, going wherever he went. |
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| Seagulls and goonies had followed in the wake of our ship, and rested themselves each day aloft in the rigging. |
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| In the figure's hands was a heavy spear and the arm holding it swept aloft preparatory to skewering Tharn on its point. |
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| By this means the skysail may be taken in or set without the necessity of sending a man aloft. |
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| Do not let any sophister teach thee that thy God is far aloft from thee as the stars are. |
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| The Frolic had been hulled repeatedly, but aloft had only lost her gaff and head-braces. |
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| Thou art like the hyacinthine flower, wont to stand aloft 'midst varied riches of its lordling's garden. |
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| The staysail had chain halyards and Marston sent a man aloft with a grease-swab. |
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| From the masthead he sung out to me to set our Stu'nsails, and he remained aloft till near seven bells of the watch. |
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| Grasping a shoulder and a thigh, Fenton straightened his thick arms and kulan was hoisted aloft. |
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| As soon as the aerial dangled aloft, Lumley got tools to bore a hole in the window-sash for the lead-in wire. |
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| Terrible was the flare of Whitefire as he flicked aloft like the levin in the cloud. |
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| I did as directed, the hands who had been aloft meeting me in the maintop on their way down. |
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| It was fortunate for us we had no top gear aloft, or the case might have been different. |
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| As he was a topman, he lived perched aloft, like a bird, avoiding the soldiers crowded upon the deck. |
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| Mayo was assigned to the jigger-mast, and went aloft to shake out the topsail. |
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| But only the fore and mizzen ones are wanted to balance the pressure aloft. |
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| Sling the lower yard, if it is to remain aloft, and unshackle the trusses, if they are of iron. |
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| The cock-of-the-roost sits aloft like Jupiter on an unsharable seat, holding your fate between two thongs of inconstant leather. |
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| How my neck used to ache when looking aloft, unweaving the intricacies of that splendid interior! |
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| Before he fell in love and married a valley girl, and had a young family to rear, his house had been aloft, in Alleheiligen. |
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| Then Wheaton began to fasten the flag to it, and presently it began to go aloft. |
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| Philip, holding his candle aloft, marveled at his own temerity in hitting this giant, oxlike in size and strength. |
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| Then glancing aloft, he understood how it was that the peregrine had been recognised. |
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| And with a pirouette she fluttered yet further away, the bit of paper held daintily and aloft between forefinger and thumb. |
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| The pointsman aloft in the signal-box made the motions of drawing, with some difficulty, hogsheads of beer. |
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| The buzzards sailing aloft looked down on the Humboldt Sink as we would look upon a relief map. |
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| He waylaid those who, coming from aloft, stood gasping for breath. |
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| He raised it aloft and waved it in a great circle above his head. |
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| Vali's corpse is borne aloft by fellow monkeys in a palanquin which is then placed on the funeral pyre and set alight. |
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| The cattleya was still there, perched aloft, as big as a hogshead. |
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| No doubt, somewhere aloft, the cherubim were already giggling. |
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| There were singers singing praises to Gopala and images of Hanuman carried aloft on palanquins. |
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| Ten archers, with thirty shipmen, under the master, may hold the waist while ten lie aloft with stones and arbalests. |
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| His six-day, 10,361-mile trip sets ballooning records for distance and time aloft. |
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| I by this time had not only got my sea legs, but was pretty handy aloft. |
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| Here, Lauritz, you young scamp, go aloft and clear the dogvane. |
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| No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast-head. |
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| He knew too well my sympathy for the runaways to send me aloft as look-out. |
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| As she ran she caught her thick parasol by the ferule and swung it aloft. |
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| Here the glib politician crying his legislative panaceas, and here the peripatetic Cheap-Jack holding aloft his quack cures for human ills. |
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| A few larger ones there were, but these kept high aloft dropping bombs upon the temples from their keel batteries. |
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| Before him walks a servant, holding aloft his visiting card. |
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| He brandished his palette and brushes aloft, in his clenched fists. |
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| She had not a sail aloft nor a plume of smoke in her funnel. |
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| The Kite, soaring aloft into the air, brought back the shabbiest possible mouse, stinking from the length of time it had lain about the fields. |
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| He was, accordingly, swung aloft, and pelted with stones to make his death more certain. |
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| The sides are daubed with a smooth white plaster, and tastefully frescoed aloft and alow with disks of camel-dung placed there to dry. |
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| At a table across the innyard an older peasant, in the full heyday of an anecdote, pauses while carving a ham, his knife still aloft. |
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| Then wielding the sword aloft, he made it whiz past Mr. Landor's neck. |
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| The patched and dirty spankers were tense before the wind, and up aloft the little ship seemed carrying every sail she had. |
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| It soared aloft so easily that I imagined our luck was changing. |
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| As to the seven who had been sent aloft to make sail, they contemplated with horror the carnage that was going on below. |
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| He glanced aloft at the spars of the Mary Rogers, and overside at the sea. |
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| Like dislodged trucks, the heads of the harpooneers aloft shook on their bull-like necks. |
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| As far aloft as I could see the stems and branches and twigs were as smooth and as highly polished as the newest of American-made pianos. |
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| Borne aloft Upon the clouds, on ether charioted, He flies with speed of lightning. |
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| As time went by, and the scent, according to the Ancient Mariner, grow hotter, all three of the investors in the adventure came to going aloft. |
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| There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To look out for the life of poor Jack. |
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| Then re-mounting aloft, it again goes through the same round until the deep cistern will yield no more. |
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| His arm remained extended aloft as if to sustain his peroration. |
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| He sat aloft and denounced their frantic leaps, plunges, dives and straddles. |
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| Don't let her get any nearer, leastwise while he's aloft with the glasses. |
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| But he and Katharine were alone together, aloft, splendid, and luminous with a twofold radiance. |
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| He was in a blue cape, and had a targe, and his axe aloft on his shoulder. |
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| The cat plays about her comrade's forefeet or his trunk often, until dogs approach, and then she goes aloft out of danger. |
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| Clambering quickly aloft I grasped the edge of the eaves and drew myself to the surface of the roof above. |
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| They swung about startled, Don Ernesto still holding his toupee aloft. |
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| The celebrant kissed the tablet, and held it aloft before all the people. |
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| No living thing would that loathly one leave as aloft it flew. |
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| But from aloft Chris saw the trick and how the camouflage was worked. |
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| Johnson seems to spend all his spare time there or aloft at the crosstrees, watching the Ghost cleaving the water under press of sail. |
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| The pianist groaned as the slave plucked at his arms and held them aloft. |
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| Archy had several times been aloft, but had never assisted in reefing. |
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| One rose, still clutching the banner in his hand and waved it aloft. |
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| For the next week all was confusion on deck, alow and aloft. |
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| But nothing that took place, alow or aloft, escaped his keen observation. |
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| As I dropped lower to have a better look at these people, they caught the whirring of my propellers and looked aloft. |
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| A block aloft squeaked incomprehensibly, for what on earth could have made it do so? |
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| From aloft we could not see the ship for smoke, and they worked carefully, passing the gaskets with even turns. |
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| The bomber aloft, sir, drops eggs when the Wabbly's attacked. |
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| Bend one bowline to the centre of the sail, to guy it in going aloft. |
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| He met them everywhere, at the wheel, on lookout, washing decks, polishing brass-work, running aloft, or tailing on to sheets and tackles half a dozen at a time. |
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| I had scarcely opened my mouth to issue the necessary commands, when eager men were springing to halyards and downhauls, and others were racing aloft. |
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| He stood for a few minutes holding the candle aloft, and blinking on our travellers with a dismal and mystified expression that was truly ludicrous. |
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| The balloon had just come in sight, far aloft in the sky, where it hovered majestically for a few moments, and then descended slowly, without deviating from its perpendicular. |
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| Then the priestess, standing above him, began reciting what Tarzan took to be an invocation, the while she slowly raised her thin, sharp knife aloft. |
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| If my mother was alive today, I'd want to carry her aloft in a sedan chair and wash her feet with my hair, but, of course, it wasn't always like this. |
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| In tempestuous times like these, after everything above and aloft has been secured, nothing more can be done but passively to await the issue of the gale. |
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| Then you would see the superb albicore, with his glittering sides, sailing aloft, and often describing an arc in his descent, disappear on the surface of the water. |
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| Then they rushed in, waving the flaring torches and with assegais aloft. |
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| High aloft in the cross-trees was that mad Gay-Header, Tashtego. |
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| Once it's aloft, there's only one way to navigate a hot-air balloon. |
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| One great gray bird, a gull or curlew, soared aloft in the blue heaven. |
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| The eloquent voice, on which the souls of the listening audience had been borne aloft as on the swelling waves of the sea, at length came to a pause. |
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| He was lauded everywhere he went yesterday and if the crowd's feelings could have helped him he would have been borne aloft in a sedan chair powered by pure goodwill. |
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| Though unable to walk, she had arrived borne aloft in an armchair, as brisk, aggressive, self-satisfied, bolt-upright, loudly imperious, and generally abusive as ever. |
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| Ere the cry could go aft Steelkilt was shaking one of the backstays leading far aloft to where two of his comrades were standing their mast-heads. |
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| Sometimes they rose straight up out of the lake, and towered aloft and overshadowed our pygmy steamer with their prodigious bulk in the most impressive way. |
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| But suddenly in the distance, they saw a great heap of tumultuous white water, and soon after news came from aloft that one or both the boats must be fast. |
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