Sentence examples for i'm hoisting from inspiring English sources

This thought occurs to me as I'm hoisting the bodyboard-sized caramel twirl off the top of the chocolate fondant shortly after polishing off a 40-hour-braised rump steak, cancelling all the benefits of a day's wave-riding in one calorific wipeout.

In a flash, I was hoisting myself up to the stranger's lap.

But I figure that, even if they come apart at the breakneck pace of a pair a week, it will still take me something like four or five years before I'm out the sort of money I lost at a single stroke one sweltering August day when, while I was hoisting a series of very heavy boxes, somebody swiped my prescription sunglasses off a post-office counter.

I was hoisted onto shoulders, I was tossed in waves at the beach, and masculine hands pushed me on the playground swing.

("When do you consider a lie permissible?") When Edison announced that Mr. Huston had won the competition, Mr. Huston recalled in a memoir, "I was hoisted up on a pair of shoulders and paraded up to the judges".

With the use of a cherry picker (a large crane) and a man from the base paint shop, I was hoisted to the vertical stabilizer of my aircraft.

I was hoisted up and apparently was told that I was about to be lowered, but I didn't hear that and we didn't have eye contact, as we normally do.

So I'm left in a position where I'd discovered religion - which is very important to me - and yet, because of my own idiotic way of talking, I'm hoist with my own petard".

Wilberto reaches for something, and I can see a glint of steel as it is hoisted into the air.

Following minor modifications, it was hoisted as the national flag on Independence Day, July 30 , 1980

For the last decade and a half I've been hoisting the tag "modern genius" upon the shrugging shoulders of Magnetic Fields man Stephin Merritt.