Sentence examples for lofting from inspiring English sources

Half an hour before lunch the Australia No3 signalled his intent with a huge six off the bowling of Swann, lofting the ball over the sightscreen.

Meet a dry-stone wall, and he could tell you that Ernest Dalzell, seven times winner at the Grasmere Sports in the early 1900s, would clear those with such lofting grace, and roll and rise so swiftly from the bracken afterwards, that he seemed more antelope than human.His book, however, contained only half a dozen references to himself.

Later this year his team is planning to test the space-worthiness of their design by subjecting it to various trials, including the vibrations of a simulated launch, and, they hope, lofting it high into the atmosphere on a weather balloon to ensure it can operate remotely on the edge of space.

Wearying of his hero, Lofting tried to get rid of him by sending him to the moon (Dr. Dolittle in the Moon, 1928), but popular demand compelled him to write Dr. Dolittle's Return in 1933.

Lofting attended a Jesuit boarding school in Derbyshire from the age of eight.

Soviet success in lofting the world's first space satellite in 1957 had been followed by increased missile buildups.

Lofting also wrote books in which the doctor did not appear, including The Story of Mrs. Tubbs (1923) and its sequel, Tommy, Tilly, and Mrs. Tubbs (1934).

The move begins with Delph lofting a ball over the top of the Stoke defence that bounces in the no man's land between centre-back and goalkeeper.

But Sturridge finally claimed his hat-trick five minutes from time, lofting the ball over Schwarzer after a glorious pass by Coutinho.

Aguero runs onto the return pass before delicately lofting the ball over Adrian with his first touch.

Then he started punching the cushion and massaging it with his fist — the process is called "lofting" — to distribute the down feathers inside more evenly.