Hoist

//hɔɪst//

"Hoist" in a Sentence (19 examples)

Give me a hoist.

Hoist your sail when the wind is fair.

Hoist the sails!

Hoist the jib!

This hoist is used to lift heavy car parts.

We went out to hoist a few beers.

Hoist the anchor!

Riyad Mahrez and "The Desert Foxes" of Algeria are hoping to hoist the Nations Cup trophy once again.

Hoist the flag.

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They land my goods, and hoist my flying sails.

[Abasalom's] ambition would needs be fingering the sceptre, and hoisting him into his father's throne

[…] but this last was so heavy, I could not hoist it up to get it over the ship's side.

Between us, with much trouble, we managed to hoist him upstairs, and laid him on his bed, where his head fell back on the pillow, as if he were almost fainting.

And when skipper Richie McCaw hoisted the Webb Ellis Trophy high into the night, a quarter of a century of hurt was blown away in an explosion of fireworks and cheering.

Again Pilatus answered them, What shall I do to the Jew’s king? They again cried out and said, Hoist him! Then said Pilatus, What evil did he? They so much the more cried, Hoist him!

When you’ve reached neutral territory, when you’ve stashed the loot hoisted from the warlord’s mansion – well, he didn't have much use for it any more, did he?

Why, it was nothing to travel about the country with fifty grand worth of ice on me. Suppose I hadn’t packed a roscoe—hell, I’d of been hoisted once a week!

Give me a hoist over that wall.

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