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Example sentences for "lift"

Lexicographically close words:
lifetime; lifetimes; lifework; liff; liffe; lifted; lifter; lifters; liftest; lifteth
  1. Lift the oysters into the sauce and serve immediately.

  2. Lift them quickly as soon as the gills have curled; put them into the serving dish and then cook a second lot.

  3. He did not contradict her or lift his eyes again, merely sat there like a hunched baboon, his head on his chest, his monstrous body slowly rocking.

  4. She gave him an uneasy glance, but still kind-heartedly she persevered in her effort to lift him out of his depression.

  5. I wouldn't lift a finger to stop him going or to get him out when there; in fact it's the best place for him.

  6. There is no career for the future, but a weary effort, a long, a painful, a heavy-hearted struggle to lift the land out of its slough of degradation and set it once more upon a dry place.

  7. Happy little girl, playing among the flickering shadows of the Rhine-land, who could not foresee the darker shadows that should settle and never lift nor flicker from her heavy heart?

  8. She need not lift up her voice and declare that "she lives above the ills and disquietudes of her condition, in an atmosphere of love and peace and pleasure far beyond the storms and conflicts of this material life.

  9. I for one lift up my voice emphatically against the assertion, and do affirm that I think childhood is the most undesirable portion of human life, and I am thankful to be well out of it.

  10. Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in!

  11. But I lift my eyes from Camilla's unpliant drapery to the red red rose in her hair, and thence, naturally, to her silent face, and in that instant ugly dress and red red rose fade out of my sight.

  12. Most women do not admit it even to themselves; but it is revealed by a lift of the eyelash, by a quiver of the eye, by a tone of the voice, by a trick of the finger.

  13. And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?

  14. And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

  15. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

  16. And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.

  17. I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

  18. See the tall Mango lift his head, Aśokas all their glory spread, The Ketak her sweet buds unfold, And Champacs hang their cups of gold.

  19. The monarch mourns thy altered fate And vails his brow compassionate: Bowed down by bitter grief he lies And dares not lift to thine his eyes.

  20. The prudent man his strength will spare, Nor lift a load too great to bear.

  21. Will thou not lift thine eyes and see These dames who look to none but thee?

  22. Faint is his voice, and near to die, He scarce can lift his trembling eye.

  23. Where was the man might bend or lift With utmost toil that wondrous gift?

  24. The garden where he takes his ease Mid climbing plants and flowery trees That lift their proud tops to the skies, Dear to the tyrant as his eyes.

  25. Duty alone with binding chains The vengeance due to crime restrains, Or on the sinner I should lift My hand in retribution swift.

  26. And each fair woman lift her voice And in her new-found king rejoice.

  27. I lay mine hand upon the bow: May happy luck my hope attend Its heavenly strength to lift or bend.

  28. Ah, gentle girl, of woods unskilled, How will her heart with dread be filled At the wild beasts’ deep roaring there, Whose voices lift the shuddering hair!

  29. He whom no foe might lift or bend Was light as air to such a friend.

  30. Lift up thy head that he may stay And rest him on his weary way.

  31. See, every warrior shows his head With fragrant blooms engarlanded; All look like southern soldiers who Lift up their shields of azure hue.

  32. Here, Bill, lend us a hand to lift the lad out of the boat.

  33. A youth of about seventeen or eighteen now came up and helped his father, as it proved the old man was, to lift the stranger on shore.

  34. We fight for the long arm of honor and remembrance; for all that can lift a man above the quicksands of his needs and give him the mastery of time.

  35. We and Great Britain in alliance with America were able in peaceful co-operation to lift humanity to a higher plane, and to lead the world in peace, allowing to each his rights.

  36. This will lift the body far enough out the water to enable you to reach for the farther gunwale and you can roll yourself into the boat with no trouble at all.

  37. I'm afraid so; look out; don't try to lift me.

  38. Thus steadied, she can easily lift the left foot into the boat and sit down comfortably, using her right hand to arrange her skirts.

  39. Every one who rested one foot on the log had to lift the whole weight of his body to the height of the same; those who leaped over, put forth unnecessary effort; the right method is simply to step over the obstruction.

  40. It is chiefly against the incubus of this celestial monster that Mr. Moore dared to lift up his eyes; and many a less courageous or less clear-sighted person was thankful to him for it.

  41. No; it is the yoke of this genteel tradition itself that these primeval solitudes lift from your shoulders.

  42. They begged a lift in a farmer's cart, and in the evening reached Brussels, where they found an asylum with a friend of Pariset's.

  43. Something broke; it was late last night, and I heard they had to send to Crefeld for a steam crane to lift it.

  44. It was he who was startled this time, as he dropped his elbows and hastened to lift his faded sombrero.

  45. Well did the Bishop lift his hat, and, standing in silent awe, at last say, "The judgment throne of God.

  46. Then he began to repeat in a solemn voice that favorite Psalm of his: "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

  47. Mistress Marian was full head and shoulders taller than her cousin, the Lady Patience, and she could lift her aloft in her arms, and swing her from side to side, as a supple bough swings a bird.

  48. Even as I was about to lift up my voice to halloo unto her, lo!

  49. And Lord Denbeigh answered him: "My life is not worth even a word," and he did not lift up his forehead from his hands.

  50. My lord, who had stooped forward to lift her hat, saw none o' this, and when the hat was again upon her brow and its shadow over her face, she seemed the same as ever.

  51. It was towards the last of May that my lady did beg that we would lift her out to sit in a long-chair on the east terrace.

  52. He bent to lift her up, groaning, but she would not; whereat he trembled from head to foot, and she shook with his trembling as the leaves of a tree when the shaft is smitten by lightning.

  53. He called to me to lift him out, as he was shot through both thighs, and suffering terribly.

  54. Quietly we lift anchors and float off with the current.

  55. Soon Major Turner, the prison commander, came into the prison, making mysterious threats of something awful that would happen should we lift a single hand.

  56. She had only to lift her voice and explain, and the men would go away for a time.

  57. You lift his feet," he said to Phyllis, "send the blood to his heart; bring him to.

  58. We could not but lift our hearts in adoration and praise.

  59. Lift up thy voice to Heaven, In sacred praise and prayer, While unto thee is given The light of life to share.

  60. The wounded man is still living; but if I leave him lying here alone, he must certainly perish; and, poor weak girl that I am, how can I possibly lift his heavy body and carry it into the cave?

  61. He attempted to lift the child from the ground, but he had overrated his strength and gave up his task in despair.

  62. He told him to lift up his heart and rejoice, for because of his faithfulness he had great cause to do so.

  63. They were merely beings who flew skirts as a signal for him to lift awkwardly his heavy, round-crowned, broad-brimmed felt Stetson whenever he met them, and then hurry past to get back to his beloved berries.

  64. With dismal monotony and startling variety the uncanny and multiform shapes of the cacti lift their twisted trunks, and fat, bristly hands to encumber the way.

  65. When Doc Simpson comes over he tells us that Uncle Cal has pneumonia the worst kind; and as the old man was past sixty and nearly on the lift anyhow, the odds was against his walking on grass any more.

  66. Keller went to the clothes closet, emptied it with a sweep and lift of his arm, and returned, to lead the way downstairs.

  67. Now he was for pushing past Keller with a curt nod, but the latter stopped him with a lift of the hand.

  68. Can a girl, born in rather sordid conditions, lift herself through sheer determination to the better things for which her soul hungered?

  69. She saw herself driven by Chalfont to the Ritz or the Carlton, escorted by him to the lift where he would wait to see the last of her as she was taken up to the rooms that she did not possess.

  70. One of these fine days she hoped to be able to lift the Bayswater poet out of the public library into the public gaze, to do for him what Madame de Breze had done for Paul Brissac.

  71. In the full flower of her own youth there had been nothing in herself, she thanked God, to lift her out of the great ruck of women except, as Breezy had discovered, a shrewd head, a tactful tongue and the infinite capacity for taking pains.

  72. Steam is the moving power; it exerts the strength; the human machine is required only to lift a web periodically, or damp a roller, or twirl a film round the finger, to which the hands of infancy are as adequate as those of mature age.

  73. I'll lift the feather-tie on to the bed for you.

  74. With this new interest to lift her thoughts from her troubles, Mona regained health so rapidly that she was able to leave the hospital sooner than anyone had dared to hope.

  75. When he had had his supper and a pipe, he started on his homeward way, with but the faintest chance of meeting anyone at that hour who could give him a lift over some of the long miles.

  76. It had taken her quite as long to find the nightdress as it would have to lift the things out and put them in their proper places, for the garment was almost at the bottom of the box, but Mona did not think of that.

  77. If I go to-day I shall be able to have a lift home in Mr. Lobb's cart.

  78. So she dug away busily for some time, taking great care to dig deep, and lift the roots right out.


  79. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lift" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abstract; acme; advance; advancement; aid; air; airing; ameliorate; amelioration; amenable; amend; amendment; annex; apex; appropriate; arise; ascend; ascent; assist; assistance; atmosphere; azure; bag; bang; bear; better; betterment; billow; blue; boost; boot; bore; borrow; break; breaker; buoy; burglary; canopy; caper; carry; cerulean; charge; chop; civilize; clear; collar; comb; comfort; conduct; convey; cop; crab; crane; crash; crib; dash; defraud; dignify; discharge; dismantle; drive; edify; educate; elate; elevate; elevation; embezzle; emend; eminence; enhance; enhancement; enlighten; enrich; enrichment; erect; ether; exalt; exhilarate; extort; fatten; favor; filch; firmament; flush; fly; forward; freight; furtherance; grab; hand; haul; headway; heave; heaven; heft; height; heighten; help; hike; hoist; honor; hook; hyaline; improve; job; jollies; kick; knock; lard; leg; lever; lift; lifter; liquidate; loot; make; manhandle; meliorate; mend; mending; mount; nip; nurture; pack; palm; peak; pickup; pilfer; pillage; pinch; pirate; poach; pocket; preferment; progress; progression; promote; promotion; purloin; quiver; raise; rear; recovery; redeem; refine; reform; relief; relieve; repeal; rescind; restoration; retire; reverse; revival; revoke; ride; riffle; rigging; ripple; rise; rob; robbery; roll; roller; rope; rush; rustle; satisfy; scoop; sea; send; sensation; settle; shiver; shudder; sky; smash; snake; snare; snatch; snitch; soar; socialize; spin; square; steal; stealing; steep; stratosphere; succor; support; surf; surge; swell; swindle; swipe; tackle; take; theft; thieve; thievery; thrill; throw; tingle; tingling; toss; tote; touch; transfigure; transform; transport; tremor; trough; tsunami; undulate; upgrade; upheave; uphold; uplift; upraise; uprise; vault; vulture; waft; wave; welkin; whirl; whisk; whitecaps; windlass; wing; zenith


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    lift them; lifted his; lifting surface