Antonyms for hoistedhoist·ed

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1. lowered

   to raise a flag

   the flag was hoisted during the jubile celebrations

   Submitted by yoposeidon4 on July 7, 2020  

How to use hoisted in a sentence?

1. Joe Raedle/Getty:

   There will be a couple of what we call fast boats will come up to the capsule at that point and make sure that everything is safe on the outside of the capsule for it to be hoisted on board the recovery ship, at that point, the recovery ship is moving in and in communications with the fast boats ...once everybody gives the thumbs up that we are ready to be hoisted aboard it will get lifted aboard by a crane and cradled on board the aft portion of the ship.

2. Pears Hussey:

   It doesn't feel very democratic that a small town of Ennis can have such a huge development with such a huge impact on our efforts to meet our climate targets kind of hoisted upon us, when the impact is going to go on for generations and generations, for every step forward Ennis takes, the power plants will take us two or three steps back.

3. John Cassabria:

   I dove into the pool with my shoes, wallet, car keys -- the whole nine, and I swam with him( Luka) in my arms the best I could hold him from the midway point of the pool to the shallow end and hoisted him and John Cassabria out of the pool.

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