Example sentences for: hoist

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

  • The word hawser has nothing whatever to do with the verb to hoist; neither does the `N.E.D.

  • Before Viagra, the hoist and pull mechanics of previous impotence treatments--inflatable penile implants, Caverject erection injections, and vacuum devices--made them unattractive to most men, impotent or not.

  • Some of the material is international underworld slang: hoist `steal,' beak Brit . `magistrate or judge,' chiseller swindler,' dip `pickpocket,' the rap the punishment, blame, etc.', screw Brit . `prison guard.

  • (To go all the way, Hitler had even planned to hoist the gate onto an artificial hill, in an attempt to create a mini-Acropolis.)

  • One NYPD helicopter pilot believed one portion of the North Tower roof to be free enough of smoke that a hoist could be lowered in order to rescue people, but there was no one on the roof.


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