12 example sentences using lift.
Lift used in a sentence
Lift in a sentence as a noun
That's a cultural problem that's tough to lift.
With SpaceX and their heavy-lift plans in the back of my mind, watching the video made me cringe.
These are folks who will build the world of the 21st century, who will help lift their own countries out of poverty.
I figured when he heard that he had actually received an award it would lift his spirits even more.
Send these, the landowners, first-class-turbulence-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the door for those with gold!
" Now they are going to achieve the same thing, "Get the car lifted off the street" but it's not about them, its about getting what is needed to be done, actually done.
Lift in a sentence as a verb
Applicative functors have an operation which can lift regular functions into it.
A Brayton cycle has a certain efficiency at a given pressure ratio and an airfoil has a certain maximum lift-curve ***** and there is nothing you can do about it.
Similarly, the smaller objective of Facebook Social plugins is to lift the userbase from third party websites and move it into Facebook.
A vertical circulation engineer to design the lift and escalator strategy.
But plenty of people have bipolar mood disorders, with various mood patterns over time, and bipolar mood disorders are tricky to treat, because some treatments that lift mood simply move patients from depression into mania.
That rising tide will lift all boats, keeping the consumer devices edging ahead; that is unless, you are harking back to the "give consumers bare minimum craptaculous cloud terminals".That's been tried about every 3 months for the past 35 years or so and has never gone well.
Lift definitions
the act of giving temporary assistance
the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
the event of something being raised upward; "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity"
a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
See also: rise
a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot
lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building
See also: elevator
plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised; "some actresses have more than one face lift"
See also: facelift rhytidectomy rhytidoplasty
transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
See also: airlift
a ride in a car; "he gave me a lift home"
the act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up"
raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"
take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table"
move upwards; "lift one's eyes"
See also: raise
move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows"
make audible; "He lifted a war whoop"
cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"
See also: revoke annul countermand reverse repeal overturn rescind vacate
make off with belongings of others
raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"
invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego"
See also: raise
raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty"
take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure"
pay off (a mortgage)
take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
See also: plagiarize plagiarise
take illegally; "rustle cattle"
See also: rustle
fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia"
See also: airlift
take (root crops) out of the ground; "lift potatoes"
call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; "The floor is lifting slowly"
put an end to; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege"
See also: raise
remove (hair) by scalping
remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; "lift the tulip bulbs"
remove from a surface; "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table"
perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
See also: face-lift