Sentence examples for plastic hoist from inspiring English sources

The matter-of-fact language of Lou and Will's conversations and thoughts, and the starkness of their surroundings — Lou's humble, cramped family house; Will's disability-adapted annex with the "white metal and plastic hoist" over the bath — magnify the poignancy of their friendship.

While Louisa may have pictured the wheelchair, she hadn't been ready for "the white metal and plastic hoist that crouched over the patient's bath".

It's his bathroom that's appointed with a white metal and plastic hoist, and a glass-fronted medicine cabinet that gives off the scent of disinfectant and which houses a stock of drugs that would seem to rival that of a pharmacy.

The crowd danced, hoisting plastic chairs into the air and screaming to raucous love songs.

Which is how he and I came to be standing between the river and the road at 8 a.m. one day in February, fog rising off the water, wearing wet suits and helmets and life jackets, flagging down a rickety local bus and hoisting plastic kayaks onto its roof.

Perkus had done no more than rustle at the plastic curtain, preparing to hoist himself from the tub, when the divider was nudged aside by a white grinning face — slavering rubbery pink lips and dinosaur teeth hinged to a squarish ridged skull nearly the size of his own, this craned forward by a neck and shoulders of pulsing and twitching muscle.

In one incredible scene, she drunkenly crawls on her hands and knees through the trailer park where her father lives, sprays a hose directly at her face for hydration purposes, then tackles a plastic flamingo, which she hoists over her shoulders like a crucifix and tucks fondly into bed.

She hoisted a plastic bag from the nearby shopping center.

The monarch, who is 86, and her husband, Prince Philip, 90, never donned coats through the hours they spent on the open deck of the royal barge as it made its way down the seven-mile course of the pageant, waving at crowds that shouted "God save the queen" and hoisted a forest of plastic Union Jacks.

But because the rolls are wide, that means fewer seams to worry about, so it can be cheaper to use rubber or plastic even if the rolls have to be hoisted to the rooftop.

It is wrenching to watch her struggle to hoist her husband from his wheelchair onto a plastic chair for his shower, then bathe him with the same strong hands she uses to soap and rinse their horses.