Sentence examples for kept hoisting from inspiring English sources

Bidding on an 18th-century Philadelphia Chippendale wing chair at Sotheby's in 1986, he made the first bid at $400,000, and kept hoisting his paddle high while imperceptible signals from competitors around the room (an earlobe tug, a crossing of arms) drove the sale price to $1.1 million, then a record for American furniture, according to an account in The New York Times.

In the Kirov's three-week season that ended Sunday at New York City Center, one account of the first male-female adagio in the Shades scene of "La Bayadère" showed how Alina Somova, in one walking transition from stage left to stage right, kept hoisting her chin (in profile to the audience) as she followed the lover who had come to find her in this ballet Elysium.

With all those 3-pointers falling, Notre Dame Coach Mike Brey told his players to keep hoisting them up.

At that moment I realized there was no one watching us from the hotel, no one leaning over the rail with their drinks, no life guards, no one, save for my wife and son on the bobbing platform behind me, seeing only the back of my head and my five year old son, who I still managed to keep hoisted above the water.

And only bad luck kept Steve McClaren from hoisting the Dutch Cup, as his FC Twente side lost to Heerenveen 5 4 on penalties after a dramatic match had finished 2 2 after extra time.

He gave his age as 60 and said he had kept his arm hoisted for half his life or so.

In an attempt to allay fears of corporate raiders ravaging our timber and of fat cats locking gates and hoisting "Keep off my forest!" signs, the government is selling the proposal as part of the great, vaunted power shift away from Big Government and into local hands.

Henrik Lundqvist, Anton Stralman's stick, a pile of snow and Derek Stepan's hand kept the Kings from hoisting the Stanley Cup on Wednesday.

If an airman had a friendly face, one that might invite even an innocent conversation on a train, she armed him with a copy of the French newspaper Le Figaro and instructions to keep it hoisted.

You do, however, have to be prepared to earn your keep, whether by hoisting sails, hauling lines or cataloging samples.

Repeated pregnancies weaken the support system that keeps the womb hoisted up in place.