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Example sentences for "lifters"

Lexicographically close words:
liff; liffe; lift; lifted; lifter; liftest; lifteth; lifting; liftit; lifts
  1. The massive plane flew at supersonic speeds and was equipped with jet lifters for vertical take-off or hovering.

  2. He telephoned the airfield to have a jet plane with lifters readied for take-off.

  3. And the Bootstrap-lifters pause long enough to answer: "Lord have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law!

  4. And all the Bootstrap-lifters desist from their lifting, and menace me with furious looks.

  5. The dampers are held in their places by wires or lifters passing between the strings and through the register, which holds them as they are acted on by the keys and pedal.

  6. Let's have one of those lifters from the stove.

  7. We dropped one of the iron lifters and listened to hear it fall.

  8. A few of them were able to use contragravity hand-lifters and hand-towed lifter-skids; several were even learning to operate things like bulldozers, at least to the extent of knowing which lever or button did what.

  9. Most of the single-mounts, landing craft and manipulators and heavy-duty lifters went with him, jamming the decks around the vehicle ports of Valkanhayn's ship.

  10. Inside were a lot of lifters and skids and power shovels and things; laborers were assembling for work assignments.

  11. There weren't any controls tor lifters or conveyers or other mobile equipment.

  12. Jacquemont and Nichols had already arrived; Lucas went to them and began talking about stevedores and lifters to get off the cargoes from the ships.

  13. They used an extension line from a power unit on one of the lifters to get it open, and did the same with the inner door; when it was open, they passed into a dim room that stretched away ahead of them and on either side.

  14. Jeeps and lifters and manipulators and things floated out of her.

  15. Jerry Rivas, Anse Dawes, and the three tramp freighter fo'c'sle hands took lifters and equipment and went off foraging.

  16. It goes without saying that there are adroit and dexterous shop-lifters of both sexes, while the manner of conducting their operations is as diverse as can well be conceived.

  17. Shop-lifters are the terror of the shop-keepers, for the thefts embrace everything of convenient character lying about.

  18. They were saving a lot of wax; each one of those big sausages that the lifters picked up and floated away weighed a thousand pounds, and was worth, at the new price, eight hundred sols.

  19. We hastened up the path that had been tramped and dragged to the waterfall, got the lifters off the logs, and used them to help ourselves up over the rocks beside the waterfall.

  20. The waterfall above the boat was higher than the one below, but not quite so hard to climb, especially as we had the two lifters to help us.

  21. Let's get the cutter and the lifters and go up now.

  22. As fast as they pulled the big skins down, men with hand-lifters like the ones we had used at our camp to handle firewood would pick them up and float them away.

  23. They had a lot of small fork-lifters that were helping close to the fire.

  24. There was some swapping around of clothes and we gathered up the two lifters and the sonocutter and a floodlight and started upstream.

  25. The stamp of approval has been made by high speed automobile practice upon the overhead cam-shaft drive, with valves in the cylinder head operated direct from the cam-shaft or by means of valve lifters or short rockers.

  26. Many forms of valve spring lifters have been designed to permit ready removal of the valves.

  27. At the first signal, he himself and the four lifters begin to draw a long and full breath; and when the inhalation is completed, or the lungs filled, the second signal is given for raising the person from the chair.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lifters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.