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How to use hoisting in a sentence

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When the weights reach the floor the clock has to be wound, hoisting the weights back up.
Suddenly he was striding up to Loretta, grabbing her around the waist and hoisting her up over his shoulder.
A hoisting beam was attached to two extra collar beams at the front of the house to raise and lower goods and furniture.
Indeed, hoisting monoliths that could weigh many tons demanded gigantic rigs.
During their two-week passage, the ships occasionally gained an extra knot or two by hoisting trysails to catch prevailing zephyrs.
A staunch Wicklow supporter, he has been scarified for hoisting the Dublin colours in Balto.
The company beat out rhythms with their canes, hoisting them overhead and twirling them in unison, their footwork crisp in Morse code mode.
She looked so sweet like that, hoisting herself up onto the bed, and then sitting with her legs sticking straight out in front of her.
In New York City, cranes are prohibited from hoisting materials or equipment over city streets.
Iwo gave us the uplifting vision of the Marines hoisting the flag on enemy soil.
Instead, the sheer bulk of hoisting and carrying machinery made being crushed underneath them more of a concern than getting caught in pulleys.
With the quick coupler, for instance, you can disconnect a bucket and use the lifting eye on the coupler as a hoisting device.
At 79, she is a prodigy of youthful energy in hoisting a hefty bundle of old tricks.
He swung the machine aside and punched a few buttons on a control panel, hoisting the machine up to the left side of the ceiling.
Lupone, who played sousaphone in her high school marching band, will be hoisting a tuba onstage.
The movers will move it, and I could care less how they go about hoisting it out of the room and onto their truck.
When they signaled for pickup, the crew chief talked the pilot down to a 30-foot hover and started hoisting.
As a young man he was involved in the hoisting of a 20-ton copper orb onto the apex of Florence's duomo.
The one crane I saw in the streets of Baghdad was hoisting an advertising billboard.
The engines were steaming full speed astern, and by hoisting the topsail, the ship shot past it in safety.
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They followed her to the cage, and the big 293 miner gave the hoisting bell.
As a matter of fact I do not approve of the hoisting of flags on the church tower.
Frantically, the crew backed the sails, hoisting them to take all the wind possible.
Either clincher or carvel-built, no jib-stay, the jib hoisting and hanging by the halliards alone.
The state of a top-sail yard when it arches in the centre from hoisting it too tautly.
It is difficult to say when the custom of hoisting a pendant on commissioning the ship became established.
This had been used by the contractor's party in hoisting to the scow the blasted coral from the reef, at midway islands.
Rattleton set about unfurling the sails and getting them ready for hoisting.
A Tackle is a purchase formed by reeving a rope through two or more blocks, for the purpose of hoisting.
He immediately ran down, hoisting the French ensign, and yawing a little to show it.
A tackle is a purchase formed by reeving a rope through one or more blocks for the purpose of hoisting or pulling.
As they passed his lips the Great Yarmouth began to move, for the sailors were hoisting up her anchor.
Some other men and a woman were scanning the hoisting machinery with superior looks.
My handiness with the ropes, when I volunteered to help in hoisting sail, surprised and even perplexed him.
Aloft was the boson, apparently rigging up some sort of a hoisting arrangement.
The ruse of hoisting the British flag was legitimate if the Buenaventura substituted her own flag before proceeding to board them.
It is very fat and tender, and apt to tear in pieces in hoisting it on deck.
Haul out on the downhaul, hoisting and lowering on the halyards.
Haul aboard by the downhaul, hoisting clear by the halyards.
Hoisters who can't be there in person can still make Samuel Adams stein hoisting history from the comfort of their own homes.
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