aloft
Example Sentences
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All Indiana held its breath, and somebody raised a lantern aloft.
From Literature
Her hand is aloft but it’s waving to someone else.
From Literature
The last time Sam Altman and Dario Amodei stood on stage together, they awkwardly tried to avoid physical contact even as other tech leaders held hands aloft for a group photo with India’s prime minister.
A bit of tinkering – stripping the original’s heavy bassline, tossing in his lithe falsetto and a playful guitar to hold everything aloft – made the one-time throwaway into something immortal.
From Salon
On the third try, the pilot finally rose using his instruments alone—without being able to see anything out of the windows—to get them aloft.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
