Sentence examples for it lifted off from inspiring English sources
Each time the door was struck, it lifted off its hinges slightly — four or five times, a ferocious force — until whatever it was (animal? man?) went away.
"It was a religious experience when it lifted off," English recalled.
Last November, surface-to-air missiles narrowly missed an Israeli passenger jet as it lifted off from the airport in Mombasa, Kenya.
When the Nasdaq was soaring earlier this year, there were days when it lifted off while the overall market was doing little -- if anything.
He walked across a parking lot, surrounded by aides and cameras, and climbed into a green-and-white helicopter that churned dust as it lifted off.
The display in the diner included a picture of the Challenger as it lifted off, and excerpts from an essay by Dr. McNair.
He'd often finish them by repeating an anthemic, singable melody, altered minutely until its intensity helped it lift off.
The Global Positioning System and Google Earth can tell a drone where it is and what large, permanent obstacles it might encounter, and it can be programmed with its course before it lifts off.
All three wheels turned, making the car Dymaxion terrific for parallel parking, but its V-shaped bottom tended to make it lift off the pavement at speed.
Eventually it lifts off from the syntax and logic we know, and all traces of narrative -- names, places, events -- drop away.
At the end, it lifts off into "Vapour Trail," by Ride, and you float away, into the glow of remembered adolescence and driving to the beach.
