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Example sentences for: hoisted

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The Berlin Wall was opened on 9 November 1989, and at midnight on 3 October 1990, a huge black, red, and gold national flag was hoisted at the Reichstag.
What looks to some like the aftermath of a child’s tantrum among its building blocks is on closer inspection an artful composition of 354 precast concrete boxes (originally hoisted into place by crane) to create 158 homes of various sizes and combinations.
"If we don't take the lead, we're going to get hoisted on our own petards," says Sackett, apparently referring to the cottage industry in political parody Web sites.
It now hangs on an electric cable to be hoisted above harm’s way should another flood ever happen.
The region’s overpowering isolation is very evident on curvy backroads, where drivers must contend with men straggling along the side with hoes hoisted over their shoulders, women carrying bunches of branches, and serious-looking farmers towing donkey-led carts.