Example sentences for: lift

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

  • I am not enamored of the treatments of lift and elevator , for instance, where the former is defined as a box-like device which moves up and down, carrying people or goods from one floor of a building to another or raising and lowering people underground in a mine, and the latter as a piece of equipment which moves things from one level to another

  • 25 It has been reported that, in some cases, it has been necessary to go further away from the plant to source cranes with adequate lift and reach capacity.

  • Le Monde separately reported that, according to European officials, the United States is expected to lift its ban on imports of French Roquefort cheese, pâté de foie gras, and mustards at the World Trade Organization conference in Seattle at the end of next month.

  • Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, more optimistic about the "pledge to mount a region-wide economic growth campaign and launch simultaneous stimulus measures across the Asia-Pacific to lift the region out of its slump," reprimanded U.S.

  • Richard Ashby, the pilot whose jet severed an Italian ski lift cable, killing 20 people, was sentenced to six months in military prison.


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