Example sentences for: aloft

How can you use “aloft” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The union czars lived fat on union dues: In the mid-'80s, president Jackie Presser squandered $650,000 on a party where he costumed himself as a Roman emperor and entered on a litter borne aloft by four muscled men.

  • In 1958, the jazz pianist known as Sun Ra recorded a remarkable album, Jazz in Silhouette . Borne aloft by splendid dancing melodies and often-startling syncopation, Jazz in Silhouette soared in the manner of Duke Ellington.

  • Well, maybe not so amazing: We've got Della Reese holding them aloft.

  • Her Party's in Turmoil Evasiveness May Run Manhole Lids aloft In a Sharp Rebuff

  • Very soon he was touring the country, bringing back new ideas about line and volume, as in Telegraph Poles, Texas (1915): some stripped trees leaning over, bearing aloft a neat grid of wires, towering over flatland and stumpy shacks.


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