How to Use aloft in a Sentence

aloft

adverb
  • The balloon stayed aloft for days.
  • The current stock market is held aloft by tech.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 11 May 2026
  • High pressure aloft causes the air to sink.
    — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 7 June 2026
  • As the crowd sang, protesters held signs aloft.
    — Eva Remijan-Toba, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Many held their phones aloft while approaching the catafalque.
    — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Has our time aloft taught us more about how to live and operate in space?
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The forces of weight, thrust, drag and lift act on a plane to keep it aloft and moving.
    — Craig Merrett, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
  • To hunt, these creatures likely stood on the seafloor, heads held aloft.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • In another, a cheery Barnes holds aloft a glass of green juice.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Lorenzen later held his baby aloft on the field and smooched her on the cheek.
    — Dan Gelston, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2023
  • There was fighting on Earth, but friendship aloft.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 31 Oct. 2025
  • If a bird glides down more slowly than the air is rising, the rising air keeps it aloft.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The crowd cheered, and phones were held aloft, and for a moment, the past was forgotten.
    — Max Berlinger, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Gero held the antenna aloft and put his ear to some kind of receiver.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • In such a case, the aircraft slows down too much to be able to remain aloft and goes out of control.
    — Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2023
  • For decades, he’s aimed to break the 30-second record for time aloft of a paper plane.
    — Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023
  • What joy in being called down from the branches to eat, and then returning aloft.
    — Cj Hauser, Bon Appétit, 6 July 2022
  • Two girls dressed in camouflage sneak around a house, arms aloft in victory.
    — Reyhan Harmanci, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Even though wind is blowing aloft, the cold air prevents the wind from getting down to ground level.
    — Mark Thiessen, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Nearly half of those in the large audience held their phones aloft to capture images and sound.
    — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2023
  • There could be a few spotty afternoon showers due to cooler air aloft.
    — Bill Kelly, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Either aloft or on the surface, strong winds can carry it long distances, even thousands of miles away.
    — Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
  • But even when a lead vocal came up slightly short, the group’s trademark harmonies kept the music aloft.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2024
  • The droplets stay aloft for about 10 minutes and will kill mosquitoes on contact.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 16 May 2022
  • Those generally fly at a bit of a higher altitude and can stay aloft for hours at a time.
    — Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Aug. 2025
  • And why the lamp held aloft beneath a radiant, spiky sun that also contains a lightbulb?
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
  • To say that the ride is smooth would be an understatement—imagine being carried aloft on a fluffy cloud.
    — Becca Hackett, Car and Driver, 21 July 2023
  • There will also still be some haze around, probably thickest in the morning and still almost all aloft.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
  • White prefers that the only glow come from the electric candles that flicker from wall sconces, not iPhones held aloft.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 June 2022
  • As the propellers move the craft forward, the plane is held aloft by the cushion of air between it and the water.
    — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Feb. 2023

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