Sentence examples for has lifted off from inspiring English sources

The price of oil has been at 12-year lows, although it has lifted off these levels to around $31.

Yet some locals complain that Herrenknecht has "lifted off" — he drives a silver Porsche Carrera around town — and he is often irritated by the town's stodginess.

He kept on drawing, and it is the drawings that hold up, in their perfect innocence and surprise: This ski lift has lifted off for Uranus.

a new communications system was added for today's test that transmits information directly to the kill vehicle about the location of the target after it has lifted off.

This time a communications system has been added that would transmit information directly to the kill vehicle about the location of the target after it has lifted off.

And the launch shuttle can brake quickly once the plane has lifted off (and then return for another launch) by reversing the current running through the motor.What works in a military context might not, of course, be appropriate for civil aviation one reason why nobody has considered equipping airports with steam catapults.

The front wheels have lifted off the runway.

The roof might have lifted off to the heavens.

The age of flight had lifted off the ground.

It had lifted off on a cold day, but not this cold.

By the time we arrived, two balloons had lifted off and four more were half inflated.