Sentence examples for hoisting just from inspiring English sources

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The instant you cross, you're hit by a riot of dazzling colors, loud music, drunken border policemen, and women hoisting just about every imaginable kind of fruit and vegetable onto their heads.

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The Jing Jang Jong are a quintet of snake-hipped young men (except for Panda on bass, who is built for comfort) who possess an intangible romanticism, as evidenced by debut single "Lucio Starts Fires", which hoists them just clear of the post-Libertines morass.

What's going to happen... to Gino... to the tree... to me! Gino grabs another branch, hoists himself just a bit higher.

Food provides the essential fulcrum in the places Bourdain visits, at home and abroad, so a place's people and culture have enough leverage to hoist themselves just a little bit above the humdrum and, by so doing, become distinct.

At great risk to himself, Meserve runs in to save Eriksson, hoisting him out just in time.

In one especially notable scene, Israeli soldiers could be seen hoisting their guns (just paint-ball guns, the Israelis said) in preparation for the raid.

It's more personal than just hoisting the company logo up on the spinnaker.

11.00pm BST A braless Spanish woman just hoisted the UK out of the bottom two.

In short, our beloved Penn has just hoisted Mrs. Cohen's name onto its de facto founder's hall.

Why couldn't he just hoist her onto a hot car bonnet and tear off that turquoise excuse for a bikini bottom?

It hoists your spirits just to see them: the lisping and lubricious Franklin Pangborn, the Jeevesian Robert Greig, the flustered fidget Jimmy Conlin, and William Demarest, the two-legged bulldog.

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