LIFT in a Sentence
Learn LIFT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
286 example sentences for LIFT, such as:
1. Come and help me lift this box.
2. Art is long, but lift is short.
3. And lift me deepening down to doom.
4. She gripped the hand rail in the lift.
5. We have to walk up, for there is no lift.
2. Art is long, but lift is short.
3. And lift me deepening down to doom.
4. She gripped the hand rail in the lift.
5. We have to walk up, for there is no lift.
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Meanings and Examples of LIFT
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lift
n. a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
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.
2 Mattie followed him out of the door and helped him to lift the trunk into the back of the sleigh.
3 "My husband is in Virginia," said Melly with a proud lift of her head.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
11 And lift me deepening down to doom.
12 But my whole clock's run down; my heart the all-controlling weight, I have no key to lift again.
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.
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 ...
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.
Example Sentence: (76 in 6 pages)
1 The government has agreed to lift the embargo imposed ten years ago.
2 Art is long, but lift is short.
3 Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when your wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
4 We have to walk up, for there is no lift.
5 It's difficult to lift off the cover of the box.
6 Come and help me lift this box.
7 The little boy hasn't the strength to lift that heavy box.
8 It required superhuman effort to lift the huge boulder.
9 The government has agreed to lift restrictions on press freedom.
10 She gripped the hand rail in the lift.
11 Hang on with your hands, I will lift you up.
12 This suitcase is too heavy for the child to lift.
13 The hotel has a private lift linking it to the beach.
14 Thumbing a lift had once a carefree, easy-going image.
15 When we accepted that lift in Paris, we never expected to land up in Athens.