Sentence examples for lifted like from inspiring English sources

Passages were lifted like clouds rising on thermals from Thomas Childers's "Wings of the Morning" (Addison-Wesley, 1995).

And my dresses they are lifted like brides come to rest on the bedstead, crucifixes, dresses tangled in trees in the rooms of my heart.

The truck was lifted "like a leaf floating across the top of the water," he said, and the powerful current tore off the front tires.

Her face as she glances Maddy's way, and that one eyebrow lifted like a fermata, like the very sign of love.

The skipper lifted like the best players do, clearly the most influential midfielder on the ground in the second half and finishing with 27 possessions and a goal.

One bright morning, near the Phillips Alpine field, a flock of geese lifted like a hand from the flat table of the tundra.

A few more power lifts like it, and Strong Place will be a bona fide champ.

Pigeon-winged books died on the ground, their pages lifting like feathers, until, at Fahrenheit 451, they burst into flame.

To ride that sweetspot where the crowd lifts like the swell of the sea under the harbour wall.

"I thought it was obvious that he had been lifting like a football player, not like a baseball player," Shaw said.

Without even pressing a physical button, you swipe up the screen; the Lock screen lifts like a drape as you slide your thumb, revealing what's underneath.