How do you use the word "lift" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "lift" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "lift": Give me a lift in your car. We can lift the restrictions on imports once the joint agreement is signed.

Lift Meaning

/lɪft/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo raise or rise.

verbTo raise or rise., To cause to move upwards.

Sentence Examples

Give me a lift in your car.

We can lift the restrictions on imports once the joint agreement is signed.

It's on the sixth floor—let's take the lift.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

raise elevate elevation

Antonyms:

lower

CEFR Practice Quiz

To get the box onto the top shelf, you need to ____ it up above your head.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Could you help me ____ this heavy box onto the top shelf? I cannot do it by myself because of my back.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English liften, lyften, from Old Norse lypta (“to lift, air”, literally “to raise in the air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftijaną (“to raise in the air”), related to *luftuz (“roof, air”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *lewp- (“to peel, break off, damage”) or from a root meaning roof (see *luftuz). Cognate with Danish and Norwegian Bokmål løfte (“to lift”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish lyfta (“to lift”), German lüften (“to air, lift”), Old English lyft (“air”). See above. 1851 for the noun sense "a mechanical device for vertical transport". (To steal): For this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic 𐌷𐌻𐌹𐍆𐍄𐌿𐍃 (hliftus) "thief", cognate with Latin cleptus and Greek κλέπτω (kléptō)). But perhaps simply from the idea of removing an item from a surface.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Their walk had continued not more than ten minutes when they crossed a creek by a wooden bridge and came to a row of mean houses standing flush with the street. At the door of one, an old black woman had stooped to lift a large basket, piled high with laundered clothes." — 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:

"A long, late-night tracking shot from one end of the Neon Boot bar to another actually tracks along the surface of the bar itself—and when there is a drunk passed out on the bar, the camera simply lifts up and flies over him, then continues on its route." — 1984 October 12, Janet Maslin, “Blood Simple, A black-comic romp”, in The New York Times, retrieved 09 Jul 2012:

"Once it [a snowdrop variety] became established, some bulbs were lifted and passed on to be chipped (i.e. cut into small pieces and grown on)." — 2015 February 7, Val Bourne, “The quiet man of the world of snowdrops”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G8:

"Graham secured victory with five minutes left, coolly lifting the ball over Asmir Begovic." — 2011 October 2, Aled Williams, “Swansea 2 - 0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport Wales:

"Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side, And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride." — 1919, Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West:

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