Sentence examples similar to hoist a sheet from inspiring English sources
As fighting raged around the old church walls, even from grave to grave, the two paratroopers hoisted a white sheet with a self-painted Red Cross beneath the old bell tower and tried to save the lives of anyone wounded during the American landings on nearby Utah Beach.
Then, as the woman hoisted her camera high, Ms. Mindel stood on her toes and held up a sheet of paper, trying to prevent the mayor from being videotaped.
Yet bad publicity about cutbacks would hoist a red flag.
The maximal angle to hoist a user upright was 80 degrees.
Before sunset on Tuesday two metal rods were hammered into dry dirt and grass and a white sheet hoisted to create an open-air cinema in the mayor's gardens in the centre of Lira, 220 miles north of the capital, Kampala.
Lift your vehicle with a hoist or a jack.
Drury has hoisted a Stanley Cup.
The demonstrators hoisted a Russian flag.
Mr. Romney hoisted a baby from the crowd.
