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How to use hoist in a sentence

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Next time you take your car to a Greek or Italian mechanic and he uses the Force to jack your car up instead of the hoist, be very afraid.
Navy ships not under way also hoist and lower the union jack on the jackstaff, at the ship's bow, and at morning and evening colors.
Of course, buckets were designed to scoop dirt, not wreck structures or collect and hoist the gangly debris.
Then I hoist myself out of the freezing tub, and the two women wrap me in a thick, warm robe with a hood.
The giant bagel weighed 394 kilograms, measured 1.8 metres in diameter and required a small crane to hoist it out of its custom-built oven.
In the United States, it is stipulated by law that public institutions such as schools will hoist the national flag.
Jeffers apprenticed himself to the home's contractors, then built Hawk Tower by hand, using ropes to hoist boulders from the cove below.
He managed to grab the sheep and secure it with a rope around its horns allowing inspector Hall to hoist the animal over the bank to safety.
As I left, one of the three men pushing a gigantic handcart motioned for me to help them hoist it up a curb.
These patents were for a steelyard, a candlestick, the anglet, a mason's hoist for bricks and mortar, and a balance.
Watched by a crowd of onlookers three firefighters went into the water and used a canal side crane to hoist the shivering animal out.
Televisions are in every rack, and a pneumatic overhead hoist is in each hangar bay, just to make the mechanics happy.
As the engine was lowered, the lanyard had actuated a valve that drove the hoist to its stowed position.
The back door leads out to the large yard, which includes a Hills hoist and a monster olive tree.
The early hours of last Wednesday morning saw the Jeanie Johnston hoist its sails yet again and head for the high seas.
They hoist their bags on to the ramp, step up into the back of the aircraft and pass their bags forward to the cargo hold.
Before we hoist one for Pete, let's also remember that he's one of the best choirmasters in the country.
Rutan's spaceship may not yet be able to hoist loads into orbit, but it will give the ultimate ride to would-be astronauts.
When conditions finally permitted, it was all hands on deck as we formed teams heaving on a forest of ropes to hoist Eda's huge sails.
The Union Flag occupies the upper, hoist quarter of an otherwise red flag and the Arms are within the red field.
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There was a scramble for the buckets, but no one offered to man the windlass and hoist them up the air shaft.
Shall they hoist me up And show me to the shouting varletry Of censuring Rome?
The sail was ready to hoist, Joe and Abe having made a seamanlike job of this.
It had a friction crab hoist driven by an electric motor, both of which were fastened to the derrick frame between the shear legs.
Why do they continue to fire, General, when I have given orders to hoist the white flag?
She saw Garnache raise his foot to the stirrup and hoist himself to the saddle.
If you should want me for anything, hoist some kind of flag on the mainmast.
You don't imagine for an instant that they'll maroon us and hoist the Jolly Roger, do you?
Had there been no Gesler to hoist his cap on a liberty pole, there would have been no William Tell.
She began to hoist her lugsail in a dazed, shiftless fashion, while our two boats drifted slowly to leeward.
No mistakes or omissions had been made, and he proceeded to hoist the mainsail.
I fastened it at the masthead, so that we could hoist and lower the sail at pleasure.
He could hoist out facts and figures as easily as you would fling a weevily biscuit to leeward.
Had the well-beloved Honoria, in a moment of overscrupulous conscientiousness permitted herself to hoist danger signals?
After the clergyman has cried his peccavi, suppose we hoist up a bishop, and give him a couple of dozen!
On leaving the garden, we mount our green spectacles, hoist our umbrella, and resolutely set our face homeward and Romeward.
We have already noticed that it differs from the ropeway in that it has to hoist and discharge its burdens as well as convey them.
As to the ship's company, they desired nothing better than to meet the unicorn, to harpoon it, hoist it on board, and despatch it.
I shouted, and had the sense to hoist the reefed foresail at once.
They used cables to hoist the helicopter fuselage with its mock passengers into the air and swing it to the ground, much like a pendulum.
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