"lift" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Bork was soft-spoken most of the time, but when he "warned" somebody, it could involve lifting them by the shirtfront with one hand until they were eye-level.
- The jerk portion involves lifting the weight above the head until the arms are straight and the bar is stationary.
- This exercise involves lifting a considerable amount of weight about the head.
- Woodwind instruments each have one major scale whose execution involves lifting the fingers more or less sequentially from the bottom to top.
- As in the sport of Olympic weightlifting, it involves lifting weights in three attempts.
- A flatspin involves lifting the upstream edge of the boat from the water during the spin.
- It involves lifting the pelvis off the ground so that the body weight is supported on the shoulders (or head) at one end and on the feet at the other.
- The evolution of humans involved lifting the nose away from the noxious ground environment as they adopted a bipedal posture (Aiello and Dean 1990).
- If a job involves lifting a 75-pound box, a valid test defines the strength a worker needs to lift the box.
- The task unit was called "Shufly" and its first operational employment involved lifting Vietnamese troops into battle on April 22.
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