How To Use Lift up In A Sentence

  • Here we did everything but lift up the old-fashioned coal-burning Aga cooker, which must have weighed a couple of tons at least. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
  • They'll use the wire to slice the tanker up into sections and then lift up each one so it can be carted off for scrap.
  • His outside ears lift up, moving at the strange sounds.
  • Manda went to lift up the covers at the foot of the bed only to see the boarded base at the bottom.
  • The mechanic was a big hefty man who could lift up the front of a truck with his bare hands.
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  • We recommend to anyone who can do this that they lift up the insole of the shoe and slide the plastic bottom plate underneath the insole of the shoe.
  • We decided that we would walk to Purple Mountain (Mt. Zhongshan) and catch the chairlift up to the top.
  • Without much hesitation, Tama used his psychokinetic forces to lift up the unconscious Akons and throw them into the dark maw of the waiting transmitter The men disappeared in a lightning-like flash, probably to rematerialise almost instantly somewhere on the 5th planet of the system. Blue System
  • I wished to express my feelings - I wished to lift up my voice and sing.
  • Simply lift up and the bat will come off the wheel-head without any struggle.
  • We grabbed the snowboards and took the ski lift up.
  • The words go like this: “I’m free to worship, I’m free to praise, I’m free to lift up holy hands and magnify His name.”
  • If asked to lift up both hands, this person will sink into a posterior pelvic tilt and kyphotic seated position, in an attempt to maintain sitting balance.
  • I bummed a lift up to Hornsby with Rick as a few of the SES guys were up there having a couple of quiet drinks.
  • Lift up your head princess, if not, the crown falls.
  • The benches have seats that lift up to allow access to the cavernous spaces beneath. Times, Sunday Times
  • I had a chuckle looking at Oprah so far removed from her own Mississippi roots when she couldn't even lift up a bucket of water to balance on her head, like the young girl she was with here's a clue, Oprah: it's called a bandanna, you wrap it around like a turban, place it on your head, and if positioned correctly, the bucket should balance itself on this apparatus - I'm sure your rural, impoverished grandmother knew something about this, if you had listened to her various instructions instead of daydreaming that you would never do what she was doing; you might have spared yourself the embarrassment of not being able to do what most women of African descent in this world know how to do - but I digress. The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy: Black Feminism, Surrogate Motherhood, or Colonialist Fantasy?
  • Quiz Karl, get out the broom and lift up the rug * sweep, sweep* Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories
  • Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant which is left.
  • She did not even feel the slightest bit of anger or remorse as she felt her hands lift up the gun.
  • We’re getting what we want right now – we wanted the world to lift up," he said, adding counterfeiting is not as big as the "innovation problem. USPTO Considering Denver Office | Impact Lab
  • With your hands by your hips, reach down into the earth with your fingertips as you lift up through your spine and the crown of your head.
  • Lift up the right hip as far as it will go, hitching it up towards the ribcage.
  • Newspapers lift up the vertical shaft of the alley like small printed angels.
  • I tend to lift up halfway into the backswing and then just slap at the ball.
  • He became like a male ballet dancer - a support to lift up his glamorous partner and help her turn beautiful pirouettes.
  • I get dressed in my armor, and then I touch the spherical shaped switch that will bring the lift up to my room.
  • I want to lift up her dress as I did my dolls, and look to see if she comes with chones, and does her panocha look like mine, and does she have dark nipples too? Wendy Carrillo: El Dia de la Virgen de Guadalupe: A Reflection
  • Tilt their head back, lift up the chin, and pinch the nostrils together.
  • All the doctor has to do is knock the patient out with electroshock, saving the expense of an anesthesiologist; lift up the eyelid and insert the icepick (sometimes a "transorbital leucotome," which is an icepick with centimeter markings) and pound on it until the orbital plate fractures and the point jabs through into the brain. 1968
  • To open the gate, lift up the latch.
  • Skiers take the chair lift up the mountain at the Swiss mountain resort of Davos.
  • And whan that messangeres of straunge contrees comen before him, the Meynee of the Soudan, whan the straungeres speken to hym, thei ben aboute the Souldan with swerdes drawen and gysarmez and axes, here armes lift up in highe with the wepenes, for to smyte upon hem, zif thei seye ony woord, that is displeasance to the Soudan. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • Lift up your head and be glad that he has redeemed you and now calls you to let this joy of yours radiate to others throughout the day!
  • This one has got a biodegradable plastic cover, too, which the little plants will lift up as they grow providing them with their own polytunnel. Jean's Knitting
  • Cyril paused to lift up one of the horse's hooves and check it for pebbles and mud.
  • For rumour [the Greek pheme, via fama in Latin, gives us our word fame] is an evil thing; by nature she's a light weight to lift up, yes, but heavy to carry and hard to put down again. Socrates ? a man for our times
  • rode the lift up and skied down
  • When you see someone do what no one else is doing take notice. Something truly special is about to happen. Not only will they be lifted up, they will lift up those around them as well. That is called leadership. Tom Krause 
  • When children want to move a cursor towards the top of their computer screen, they typically lift up the computer mouse, notes the designer.
  • The "wherefore" is resumed from Heb 12: 1. lift up -- In Isa 35: 3, from which Paul here quotes, it is, "Strengthen ye the weak hands. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • The wind seemed to lift up the boathouse roof, holding it briefly, then letting it slap down hard.
  • The pleasure he takes in humbling the proud and exalting those of low degree (v. 6): The Lord lifts up the meek, who abase themselves before him, and whom men trample on; but the wicked, who conduct themselves insolently towards God and scornfully towards all mankind, who lift up themselves in pride and folly, he casteth down to the ground, sometimes by very humbling providences in this world, at furthest in the day when their faces shall be filled with everlasting shame. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • When you see someone do what no one else is doing take notice. Something truly special is about to happen. Not only will they be lifted up, they will lift up those around them as well. That is called leadership. Tom Krause 
  • Here we did everything but lift up the old-fashioned coal-burning Aga cooker, which must have weighed a couple of tons at least. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
  • The man who once had heart bypass surgery declines to take a lift upstairs to his office. Times, Sunday Times
  • Us girls went to rent some snowboards and took the ski lift up the slope.
  • He would lift up twenty little men on to the table.
  • In fact, it was often necessary to lift up the telegraph wires so that the plant could slide beneath them. TALES OF THE ROSE TREE: Ravishing Rhododendrons and their Travels Around the World
  • After dividing the rest of the load between the three smaller vans, he drove the fork-lift up the ramp into his vehicle and clamped the wheels.
  • The man who once had heart bypass surgery declines to take a lift upstairs to his office. Times, Sunday Times
  • To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a sloppail, give him glory too. he is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should. Good quote
  • He became like a male ballet dancer - a support to lift up his glamorous partner and help her turn beautiful pirouettes.
  • Check for pests and diseases: lift up the plant and inspect the underside of the leaves. Times, Sunday Times
  • To inspect a lobster's limbs, we lay it on its back (as Aristotle did), and see the legs overlapping, each hinder one above the one before; the hindmost is the first we see, and the one we must first lift up to inspect the others. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
  • Another option is to hinge the top part so that the seat becomes a lid that you just lift up.
  • This is not barely affirmed, concerning these primitive Christians, but spoken of them as their high praise and encomium; as being a discovery of the refinedness, excellency, and greatness of their spirits, who could so far lift up themselves above sense and sensible things, as to place their highest and most vigorous love upon an unseen Object. The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
  • They were inspired by Gandhi's vision of sarvodaya, social and economic programs that would lift up the most marginal members of society and bring economic independence, gram surat, to match political independence, raj surat. Valerie Tarico: Madagascar: West Knows Best
  • The man who once had heart bypass surgery declines to take a lift upstairs to his office. Times, Sunday Times
  • Consider incorporating a storage facility within your kitchen seating - banquettes, for example, can lift up to reveal a cavernous space underneath; hinge small sections for ease of access.
  • In fact, it was often necessary to lift up the telegraph wires so that the plant could slide beneath them. TALES OF THE ROSE TREE: Ravishing Rhododendrons and their Travels Around the World
  • To determine the exact width and thickness of the pieces you'll need, lift up a heat register or threshold and measure the exposed ends of the floorboards.
  • Lift up the neck skin to expose the wishbone and cut this away from the flesh, using a razor-sharp knife.
  • Best of all is taking the private lift up to the Penthouse, a suite built into a turret which combines cosiness and sheer decadence.
  • You can lift up a little lid on the seat and do a wee-wee into the chamber pot therein.
  • Transfer your weight to your right skate, unweighting the left skate so you can lift up your left heel and pivot at the toe.
  • In fact, the roach is able to lift up its front legs again and walk. Boing Boing: January 29, 2006 - February 4, 2006 Archives
  • Let us now lift up, so far as we may, one of the folds of this garlanded curtain in the midst of which the swarm is beginning to produce that strange exudation which is almost as white as snow, and is lighter than the down on a bird's breast. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.
  • downslope" of the seating is apparently causing the air to lift up in right field. The Record-Courier - Top Stories
  • Firemen had to lift up the bus before ambulance officers could try to rescue her, but she died at the scene.
  • And whan that messangeres of straunge contrees comen before him, the Meynee of the Soudan, whan the straungeres speken to hym, thei ben aboute the Souldan with swerdes drawen and gysarmez and axes, here armes lift up in highe with the wepenes, for to smyte upon hem, zif thei seye ony woord, that is displeasance to the The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
  • In addition, the slope of the seating would also lead to a 'downslope' effect in the field which, depending on wind direction, would tend to cause air to lift up in the right field. TheState.com: The Buzz
  • Yes, it means a re-think of the way we give, but it promises to truly lift up lives in these hard times and bring us back to the true definition of the word 'philanthropy,' which literally means "the love of humanity. Melanie Lundquist: Time to Change the Way We Give
  • The man who once had heart bypass surgery declines to take a lift upstairs to his office. Times, Sunday Times
  • We need to be able to lift up our faces toward heaven in the swelling joys and the startling perils of these mortal hours and cry, 'Hear me,' knowing that God does hear us and that the outcrying of every praying heart rings clear and strong in the courts of the Heavenly King. The Threshold Grace
  • It also means that stronger areas like Glasgow can help lift up less well organised areas.
  • North Yorkshire Fire and rescue crews released Mr Brader using specialist winches and airbags to lift up the tractor.
  • He rapped with his crosier upon it, saying: - Lift up your heads, you gates, lift yourselves up, you everlasting doors, that the King of Glory may come in.
  • See," said De Graville, "how near yon lonely woman hath come to the tent of the Duke -- yea, to the foot of the holy gonfanon, which supplanted 'the Fighting Man!' pardex, my heart bleeds to see her striving to lift up the heavy dead! Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12
  • He rotch down, an 'he raise up de pumpkin, an' he perambulate right quick to he ma's shack, an 'he lift up de latch, an' he open de do ', an' he yenter in. The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories
  • The apparent etymology gives us no clue either since if this is a native word, it would divide into ar 'to lift up' and -aχ, a derivational suffix with a patientive meaning. Etruscan araχ: a falcon, a hawk, both?
  • They go shuffling along, precisely as if their shoes were down at the heel -- "slipshod" -- and they could not lift up their feet in consequence. How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits Embracing An Exposition Of The Principles Of Good Manners; Useful Hints On The Care Of The Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-Culture, And Be

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