“Four of the nine balloons were still aloft the next day.”

“Down he swooped, and as he passed it he gave it a blow with his wing, and then flew aloft.”

“Hopping aboard my Zellers-purchased Ridge Racer, flipping the kickstand aloft and drifting out into the Kanata streets en route to work.”

“Interviewees have thus been treated to loftily dismissive asides, barely stifled yawns and muffled harrumphs.”

“Our fear is based on ignorance, they loftily believe, and can be safely dismissed.”

“While the poetry is cryptic, allusive and ambiguous, the prose is lucid, oracular, loftily self-assured.”