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• Mother shouted the last question with her hands thrust histrionically aloft.2015, Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen, ONE, page 106. From the entry histrionically
• I take up the shovel and hold it aloft like a gidgee, but the centipede has disappeared.2007, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, published 2007, page 96. From the entry gidgee
• It won′t get far,’ Dig yelled, watching the albatross struggle to keep itself aloft.2007, James Woodford, Whitecap, page 39. From the entry full as a goog
• He also developed the theory of step rockets flying aloft in multistages.2003, Abraham Resnick, They Too Influenced a Nation's History. From the entry multistages
• The sun spun aloft, an erumpent orb of balling glory thrilling the blue sky with its brilliance.1989, Nick Cave, And the Ass Saw the Angel. From the entry erumpent
• Yet the sun is but an intense circle of white aloft in a nigrescent sky.1958, Jefferson Howard Sutton, “Chapter 9”, in First on the Moon. From the entry nigrescent
• Aloft in the flowerhole brooded the remains of a factitious murrey chrysanthemum.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry murrey
• To "stitch aloft" is the best way on welts, too, for the same reasons stated above.1908, “The Shoe Factory”, in Shoe and Leather Journal, volume 22. From the entry stitch aloft
• These objects appear to have "sails" or "wings" attached, allowing them to be borne aloft by Anjea's winds.2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2: Normandy Crash Site (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Anjea. From the entry xenoarcheological
• Many had the bald-headed sail rigging, so crews would not have to go aloft in the winds to do dangerous reefings.2005, John S. Bohne, In the Shadow of the Moon, page 28. From the entry reefing
• One of them, Nora holding the tambourine aloft, has a touch of the woman at her completest and noblest.1985, Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence, Collected Letters: 1874-1897, page 240. From the entry frameful
• Hiram Johnson, the vehement reformer, first raised aloft the banner of nonpartisanism as an answer to California's political waywardness.1968, Gladwin Hill, Dancing bear: an inside look at California politics, page 92. From the entry nonpartisanism
• The distance down a dim-lit, dark dusty road was too far for the eye to see, not for the fainthearted to aloft on foot.2014, B. G. Simpson, Bailey’s Road. From the entry dim-lit
• Bathed and dressed for bed in feeted pajamas, she spread her arms as he held her aloft by material gathered behind her shoulders.2014, John Warley, A Southern Girl, The University of South Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 150. From the entry feeted
• The nine meats in the rodizio — skewers of which are held aloft by waiters roaming the dining room — were of varying quality.2012 March 30, Joanne Starkey, “All You Can Eat, and Then Some”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry rodizio
• The climbing line shall be crotched as soon as practicable after the employee is aloft, and a taut-line hitch tied and checked.1999, Robert H. Griffin, Safety and Health Requirements Manual: U.S. Army Corps, page 563. From the entry crotch
• Take the end of a yardrope aloft, reeve it through this block from aft forward, and make it fast round the quarter of the yard.1953, Alfred Edward Nicholls, Charles H. Brown, Nicholls's Seamanship. From the entry yardrope
• It is often said at sea that “the divil would make a good sailor, if he could only tie a bowline and look aloft.”1944, Clifford Warren Ashley, The Ashley Book of Knots, page 186. From the entry divil
• Now in the dimpled streamful ghyll, and now aloft Where leaden high rigg roads leap to a livid sky, Sour and solitary, royally will I.1919, The Cambridge Magazine - Volume 9, page 372. From the entry streamful
• Oh! hae ye watched him wave aloft The thistle ower the roses, While cowering, glowering Saxons quake At a towzier beard than Moses'1900, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould, A Pictorial History of Political Events Connected with South Africa. From the entry towzier
• Then, as Weezer took their bows, fans chanted the band’s name and held their hands aloft in the W-for-Weezer symbol until the four Weezers left the stage.2025 April 13, Peter Larsen, “Coachella 2025: Weezer rocked the festival, but didn’t mention bassist Scott Shriner’s wife”, in The…. From the entry Weezer
• But the ship's carpenter had cut his hand open on a ravehook while cleaning out some old caulking on the fo'c'sle, and Cat stayed aloft to attend him.2014, Laura London, The Windflower. From the entry ravehook
• It allowed otherwise peely wally Glaswegians to hold their tanned faces aloft in polite company and let their neighbours think they'd been to Santa Ponsa or Majorca.2011 July 3, Kevin McKenna, The Guardian. From the entry peely-wally
• Nobody had flown beside an osprey, painted by Audubon as if seen aloft by a companion bird, gripping a fish in its talons and opening its beak in midcry.2009 March 1, Jonathan Rosen, “The Fledgling Ornithologist”, in New York Times. From the entry midcry
• Our good master keeps his kites up to the last moment, studding-sails alow and aloft, and, by incessant straight steering, never loses a rod of way.Richard Mayne (2000), “kite”, in The Language of Sailing, Chicago, Ill.; Manchester: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, →ISBN, page 162. From the entry kite
• Shoes that are stitched aloft go through the same operations as the channel-stitched shoes, with the exception that the rounding machine contrivance of cutting is eliminated.1912, William Henry Dooley, A Manual of Shoemaking and Leather and Rubber Products, page 134. From the entry stitch aloft
• He tracked inflammation daily by timing how long he stayed aloft on his pull-up bar, hanging by various combinations of his arms and legs, using his hands, chelidons and houghs.2021, Tao Lin, Leave Society, page 243. From the entry chelidon
• Gowselling in the grummels he wakes the plaintiff night with pitfalls turning left to right, high noon on the wintry ocean, high noon all sides aboard and aloft to starboard.1936, Henry Miller, “Into the Night Life …”, in Black Spring, Paris: The Obelisk Press […], →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Grove…. From the entry grummel

Meaning of aloft

1. adverb At, to, or in the air or sky.
2. adverb Above, overhead, in a high place; up.
3. adverb In the top, at the masthead, or on the higher yards or rigging.

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How do you use aloft in a sentence?

Aloft is used as an adverb. For example: “He noticed that he still held the knife aloft and brought his arm down, replacing the blade in the sheath.”

What is a short sentence with aloft?

“high winds aloft”

What does aloft mean?

Aloft means at, to, or in the air or sky.