loftier

Example Sentences

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An uptick in business air travel is fueling loftier hopes for United Airlines, which is slated to report its holiday-quarter results this week.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 19, 2026

If he fixes the Rockies, he will have achieved something loftier than the Rocky Mountains themselves—and become the envy of his peers forever.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

The prosecution had argued it was a premeditated coup, while Kim claimed far loftier motives.

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2025

Clearly, his trajectory had him on a loftier path than Wilmington.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2025

And its hills are loftier, craggier, more difficult and forbidding than Vermont’s.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson