• And for the first time that day, Valerie lifted her eyes upwards and almost gasped at where she had wandered to.
• He paused as the woman moved away, then lifted his eyes to the ceiling again.
• I stole fifteen minutes to go and sit on the patio, closing my eyes and lifting my face to the sun.

• Once, when she was in elementary school, the nun stood at the front of a church filled with children out in the pews with their voices lifted in song.
• Contracting her abs, she keeps her chin lifted and raises her upper torso as high as possible.
• His eye-lids lifted and he managed a quirk of a smile in greeting.

• The fog was lifting, revealing a grey sky, and a metallic coloured ocean.
• The storm clouds lift, the storm clouds descend.
• A cloud has lifted following the change in management.

Synonyms

• So when some police officers do that, my voice will be lifted primarily to find out why they would do such a thing, not to call for their heads.
• Before he climbed into the back seat, he turned to the house and lifted his voice to its full volume.

Synonyms

• The ability to boost prices is helping to lift margins despite rising costs.
• Farmers are now expecting prices to lift by an equivalent amount.
• It warned that it expected raw material prices to lift by a similar amount this year.

• When surgeons perform a facelift they lift the skin of the face and neck and expose a raw surface.
• The mid-facelift is performed to lift this soft tissue back into a higher more youthful appearance.
• The skin will then be lifted up, pulled back and any excess will be trimmed off.

• In most parts of the country, plants grown from tubers, as well as plants that have been lifted and stored over winter, should be started indoors.
• Tender bulbs can be either treated as annuals and composted or tossed out, or they can be lifted and stored.
• Farmers can now produce two crops of new potatoes, by re-planting when they lift the first crop.

Synonyms

• Five men were injured and were lifted by medevac helicopter to another base.
• It became so large that the aquarium arranged for it to be lifted by helicopter to the ocean.
• Among these were 2,132 people in isolated villages who were lifted out by helicopter.

Synonyms

• She was an actress with an opera singer's voice and vocal skills, which enabled her to lift her performances out of the banal into the realms of realism.
• The deal is aimed at opening up global markets to producers from the developing world, enabling them to start lifting their countries out of poverty.
• Just half of the amount could pay off the international debt of 22 of the poorest countries in Africa, lifting millions of people out of poverty.

• It is Woods' fourth Masters title and his ninth Major Championship victory, and the win lifts him back to number one in the world.
• It lifted him into third place, nine shots off the pace.
• He is considered a mid - to late-round pick at this point, but a strong postseason could lift him to as high as the third round.

• Thanks, but as you can see, her mood is finally lifting, thanks to Timmy, Robert, and some close friends.
• I thought my mood would miraculously lift once I didn't have to deal with hate mail and evil comments.
• He walked into the restaurant and the mood lifted.

• It could have been lifted straight out of the '80s.
• The congestion charge, introduced in London on Monday, has been lifted straight out of the professor's 1951 essay.
• It is the kind of story which could have been lifted straight from the pages of one of her fictional tales.

Synonyms

• He plays a high-stakes burglar who lifts the diamonds and then gets hoodwinked by a rival gang.
• Twenty-five per cent of house burglaries are sneak-ins and almost half are offences, where the burglar lifts keys from the house to steal the car.
• Apparently he immediately dismissed me as harmless - I wasn't going to shoplift or lift the cash register.

• The year before, I had begun getting her used to the mountains by carrying her on lifts and skiing down gentle slopes, holding her in my arms like a baby kangaroo.
• Why do we stretch to the limits of our stamina and sometimes risk our lives climbing mountains, when chair lifts and gondolas provide comfort?
• A maze of quality runs links lifts at the mountain top, the only fault being the lack of decent slopes heading back down into the town.

• Showing more leg, when there is leg worth showing, will make you appear taller, as will a shoe with a little lift to it.
• Differences greater than 2 cm may merit correction with heel lifts.

• Such torques are proposed to be counteracted anteriorly by lift forces generated by the head and pectoral fins.
• Gliding works by having a gliding airfoil design that generates lift forces, keeping the animal in the air longer.
• Any secondary school physics text or pilot licence manual will tell you that aerofoils generate lift because of the Venturi effect.

• To sustain an airplane in the air it is enough that the lift be equal to the weight, but for an airplane take off the lift must be bigger than weight.
• Just how large is the inertial force required to oscillate a wing relative to the total lift that the wing must support?
• Under normal flying conditions, they do not increase the lift of the airplane or materially aid the maneuverability.

• However, eight balls later, a little extra lift from Zoysa was enough to snare India's maestro, the ball brushing his glove on the way through to Kaluwitharana.
• He was a tall man standing at 6ft and when bowling he used his height well, getting lift and speed off the pitch.

• "Perhaps they are trying to give the share price a lift, " he said.
• And he predicts a big lift in goat prices is on the way.
• There is nothing better than a lift in beef prices at the start of September to put more pep in the step of producers and yesterday was one of those days.