Sentence examples for as we lifted from inspiring English sources

We let off a few missile-deflecting flares as we lifted into Stinger altitude over Kabul.

The wheels kissed Antarctica a gentle goodbye as we lifted off in style, on board one of the greatest flying machines ever created.

As we lifted off and swung back toward the ship for another load, Guns N' Roses came on the headset, singing "Knockin' on Heaven's Door".

CAMBRIDGE, England — He came unannounced out of an Indian monsoon, hauling himself onto our Delhi verandah one morning 16 summers ago — tiny, skeletal, bedraggled, a black-and-white splodge so limp as we lifted him from the polished flagstones that we feared he'd drowned in the sheeting rain.

She pulled against the wall as we lifted the dresser out the door and down the stairs to the curb.

The poem was still reverberating in my head as we lifted off into a light rain a hour or so before sunset.

So as we lift his omelette to our mouths each Sunday lunchtime, we pray for troublemakers.

"It doesn't matter, as long as we lift the trophy," Tendulkar told the I.P.L. Web site.

I can see one brilliant wedge of blue sky as we lift off, not a cloud in it.

Our first sight of motorboats comes as we lift our craft over the porterage at Coltishall Lock.

"As we lift this flag, we lift our souls, our faith, our hope for a better Vieques without the Navy," he said.