Use "hoisted" in a sentence

1. He hoisted himself onto a high stool.

2. The fireman hoisted the boy onto his shoulders.

3. The cargo was hoisted aboard by crane.

4. The sailors hoisted the cargo onto the deck.

5. 6 The porter hoisted the valise up on the well.

6. The price of raw materials has been hoisted by 15%.

7. Then a crane hoisted him on to the platform.

8. 2 A school custodian hoisted the American flag every morning.

9. 13 The mixed cement has been hoisted up the building.

10. A helicopter hoisted the final section of the bridge into place.

11. 4 I finally hoisted him up with a block and tackle.

12. Plodder's Cautionary signal had been hoisted to some purpose after all

13. The sanctity of traditional ownership and lineage are hoisted like clannish flags.

14. I pried it loose a crowbar and hoisted it into the wheelbarrow.

15. A week later on the 18th, Scheer hoisted his flag aboard Friedrich der Grosse.

16. Most were on the field, but several were hoisted into the stands by forklifts.

17. Grabbing the side of the bunk, he hoisted himself to a sitting position.

18. Ataunt definition is - fully rigged; especially : with all light upper spars hoisted and rigged.

19. The captain of the ship ordered the red flag hoisted at the fore. Sentencedict.com

20. Cathead definition, a projecting timber or metal beam to which an anchor is hoisted and secured

21. At 16:00, Hipper ordered the signal "Distribution of fire from left" be hoisted on Lützow.

22. The crowd hoisted him onto their shoulders and carried him triumphantly down the main street.

23. The ball was hoisted on the building's flagpole with rope by a team of six men.

24. To that end , the Olympic flag has been hoisted over London 's historic Lancaster House .

25. A twenty-foot steel pyramid is to be hoisted into position on top of the tower.

26. The car on the bottom of the lake was hooked in and hoisted on to the bank.

27. The sailors hoisted the flag and the ship was ready to start on a long voyage.

28. * Moroni caused the title to be hoisted upon every tower, Alma 46:36 (Alma 51:20).

29. We fired, I think, about six shots when our recall signal was hoisted on the Cumberland.

30. Nanny hoisted her higher in her arms as the huntsman blew his horn and the hounds moved off.

31. Cisterns were like wells of water, which could be hoisted up with ropes and a bucket

32. The flag regulations also describe the time of day when the flag should be hoisted and lowered.

33. Two days later, the CHTPA resolved not to abide by the award and hoisted the Indian flag.

34. Recent Examples on the Web The Aircrew hoisted the man to safety about 45 minutes after responders first arrived

35. Protesters hoisted banners and carried placards with slogans like "give us back our farmland" and "let us continue farming".

36. At daybreak, the sailors cut away the anchors, unlashed the oars, and hoisted the foresail to the wind.

37. He hoisted a high mast flag and offered floral tributes at the Statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

38. The crew cut away the anchors, unlashed the steering oars, hoisted the foresail and headed for the beach.

39. She reached New York City on 23 October and hoisted the flag of Atlantic Fleet commander Admiral Jonas Ingram.

40. But the most amazing feeling was the feeling of freedom, the feeling that I felt when we hoisted her sails.

41. 17 Trumpets sounded, press-men hoisted their notebooks and their Kodaks, and cinema newshounds began to crank the handles of their cameras.

42. On the 20th the gates of the palace were Battered in and the British flag was hoisted from its topmost turret

43. In 1820, during the struggle for independence, British-born General William Miller hoisted in Tacna the first flag that represented the emerging country.

44. Even during the stay of the missionaries at Car Nicobar a Dutch adventurist named William Bolt hoisted the Austrian flag on Nicobar .

45. 18 He was dropped on 20 by Graham Thorpe at fine gully and soon after hoisted Croft over mid-wicket for six.

46. After Vorontseff had fallen off twice he was hoisted up by a grinning trooper and thrown face down in front of the saddle.

47. Cathead definition is - a projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of a ship to which the anchor is hoisted and secured.

48. Most people opt to fly the Burgee lower in the rig, hoisted to the end of the lowest starboard spreader on a thin flag halyard

49. The title, "Anchors Aweigh," came from an expression meaning the ship's hoisted anchor has just cleared the sea's bottom and, by implication, the voyage is underway

50. Herodotus recounts that, according to the Athenians, as the battle began the Corinthians hoisted their sails and began sailing away from the battle, northwards up the straits.

51. The Brazilian flag hoisted weighs about 600 kilograms (1300 pounds) and has never been taken down (not counting monthly replacements) since the capital was inaugurated on 21 April 1960.

52. The anchors were cut away, and before the foresail was hoisted, the lashings were loosened, freeing the rudder oars to aid the sailors in directing the ship toward the beach. —Ac 27:40.

53. Erdogan glorifies the Ottoman armies that reached the gates of Vienna, talks about the "good old times" when the Islamic flag was hoisted in Jerusalem, and aggrandizes Ottoman Sultans who were also caliphs.

54. The big sheets of slate were heavier than the children carrying them, and the kids hoisted them from their heads using these handmade harnesses of sticks and rope and torn cloth.

55. Cupolas are "things" that can be prefabricated offsite and then moved into place atop a structure — like the cupola shown here being hoisted to the top of a reconstructed Dresden Frauenkirche

56. When day arrived, the crew cut away the anchors, unlashed the rudder oars at the stern, and hoisted a small foresail so that they would have some maneuverability as they ran the ship aground.

57. The Black ball, an annual fundraising dance for the Keep a Child Alive charity "Black ball", alternative name for Shade ball; Black ball: a round black shape hoisted at a ship's mast head, with various contextual meanings

58. In its 26 flight India’s workhorse rocket the PSLV hoisted a 1432 kilogram special satellite that carries on it a precision clock called an atomic clock and a set of other home-made instruments that beam down accurate time and location data.

59. Ball breaker[′bȯl ¦brāk·ər] (engineering) A steel or iron ball that is hoisted by a derrick and allowed to fall on blocks of waste stone to break them or to swing against old buildings to demolish them

60. It was an organized move on the part of the sailors, evidently Countenanced by the captain; for by the time we arrived where the gangway had been, it was being hoisted up, and the skiff, slung in the ship's davits, was likewise flying aloft out of reach.

61. The very first time I walked it and several times after, I happened past a farm which I silently christened ‘Cold Comfort Farm’ and Briskening my step, hoisted The Bean into my arms as we were pursued by a hunting dog, it’s deep bass hoot echoing behind us in that particular combination of folorn and forceful that is peculiar to these

62. The Revenge Careered along over the water as if mad to get to Lundy, under a strong west wind.: Having Careered, plunging and tugging and side-stepping, until she was astraddle of the outside trace, Jenny stopped.: Amidst a scene of wild enthusiasm we hoisted his big form upon our shoulders, and Careered round the old quadrangle in triumph.: He Careered along, at the head of the party, gay as