6 sentences with 'lift'
Example sentences and phrases with the word lift and other words derived from it.
• « It said not to lift anything heavier than five kilos, and to refrain from driving for five weeks. »
• « Inhale and then slowly exhale as you lift your shoulders and head, squeezing your abdominal muscles. »
• « Filippo Brunelleschi invented a gigantic geared winch to lift huge blocks of sandstone hundreds of metres into the air and is even known to have personally ascended the building to lay the bricks. »
• « They did, however, manage to lift Captain Lancaster's right leg, thus removing the pressure it was exerting against the left control column of the aircraft, which alleviated, in part at least, one of the co-pilot's problems in controlling the aircraft. But the captain's left leg was still stuck. »
• « For example, the laws of aerodynamics: flying insects taught us about speed, lift and trajectory. To shoot them down, we plucked the lower leaves from the amaranth branches. Each tracking of prey was a physics lesson: the mass and air resistance of the weapon determined the energy needed to smash our prey to the ground. »
• « Einstein came up with the idea of relativity by imagining a lift falling because its cable has broken. If a beam of light is passed horizontally through this lift, in the time it takes to pass through the car, the far end of the car has already moved downwards, so that to an outside observer, the beam of light appears to follow a curved path. In other words, gravity bends the light. »