Sentence examples for lifts clear from inspiring English sources

As you turn the corner, your inside wheel often lifts clear of the ground and if your horses are a touch too lively, your chariot can flip over.

Detonators need to be unscrewed and, ever so gently, lifted clear.

After more than an hour of cutting, at 2am Diana was finally lifted clear of the carnage of the Mercedes.

On the uphill leg, the traction control maintained momentum in the softest sand, even when a wheel lifted clear.

The hull is designed to plane, but at 43 knots it is lifted clear of the water.

Fred Gutt, a special agent in the Seattle office of the F.B.I., said the bureau had tested the strap but could not lift clear fingerprints from it.

Translating himself from French into English and sometimes from English into French, Beckett became a great writer in both languages, and seemed lifted clear of nationality at a time when nationality appeared the besetting sin of belligerent humanity.

"The things that he got to live together had never lived together before," the critic John Russell wrote in The New York Times in 1975, "and there had been no reason to suppose that they would ever do so — or, for that matter, that they could be lifted clear of a utility situation".

I take my place in the open, intending to lift clear of myself, beyond the miserable sky-litter of planes circling in their stack, until I arrive in the star fields and find the gods still playing their long-drawn-out games.

The Long March vehicle lifted clear from the Jiuquan spaceport in the Gobi Desert at 21 16 local time (13:16 GMT).

The 40m-tall Antares vehicle lifted clear of the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia at 1700 local time (2100 GMT).