aloft

adverb \ ə-ˈlȯft \

|Updated on: 13 Jun 2018

Examples: aloft in a Sentence

Definition of aloft

1 : at or to a great height

measuring the winds aloft

2 : in the air; especially : in flight (as in an airplane)

meals served aloft

3 : at, on, or to the masthead or the higher rigging

went aloft to unfurl the sails

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Examples of aloft in a Sentence

The balloon stayed aloft for days.
the ease with which he can hold a ballerina aloft with one hand is awesome

Recent Examples of aloft from the Web

As police arrested her and 23 others, Dzurinko held aloft a sign with the name of Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzalez, a 20-year-old woman recently gunned down by U.S. Border Patrol agents in South Texas.

— will bunch, Philly.com, "'Poor' is a 4-letter word in U.S. politics. These activists are fighting to change that | Will Bunch," 31 May 2018
Some members of its 2,300-man crew were lined up for breakfast at the time—6:20 a.m. (3:20 a.m., San Diego time) A flight of 18 jet fighter planes had just been sent aloft.

— sandiegouniontribune.com, "May 27, 1954: Explosion rips carrier Bennington," 27 May 2018
Potential passages through a plume would be a bonus, allowing both spacecraft to sniff out any signs of curious oceanic chemistry or even of life carried aloft in the tenuous vapor.

— ramin skibba, Scientific American, "Decades-Old Data Unveils Plumes Spewing from Europa," 14 May 2018
Early in her address to graduating Yale students at Sunday's Class Day, Hillary Clinton reached behind the lectern, pulled out a traditional Russian ushanka hat, and held it aloft.

— samuel chamberlain, Fox News, "'No, I'm not over it': Hillary Clinton jabs Trump, shows off Russian hat at Yale Class Day," 20 May 2018
The royal couple’s open-topped carriage was pulled by four Windsor Grey horses and past crowds waving flags and holding cellphones aloft.

— ellen barry, BostonGlobe.com, "Prince Harry and Meghan Markle wed, and a new era dawns in Britain," 19 May 2018
To compare, when Neymar injured his back at the 2014 World Cup, his Brazil teammates held his shirt aloft during the national anthem in their next game, almost as if something more fatal had happened.

— SI.com, "From World Cup Hero to Squad Exclusion: The Sad Fall of Germany's Golden Boy Mario Götze," 15 May 2018
Along with rising interest rates, Treasury yields have also been kept aloft recently by an expanding federal budget deficit.

— sam goldfarb, WSJ, "U.S. Government Bonds Slide to Start Month," 1 May 2018
Director Steve MacKinnon has assembled a winning cast and deftly found the balance between slapstick and heart that keeps this form of theatrical storytelling aloft.

— matthew j. palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, "St. Luke's 'Peter and the Starcatcher' takes flight," 13 Apr. 2018

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