Kim Jong-un

The heroic working class of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, holding aloft the banner of modelling the whole society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, should become the engine propelling the masses forward on the general onward march and the example for all other members of society to follow in stepping up the building of a powerful socialist country.

North Korean Leader

Junot Diaz

I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.

American Writer

Steve Fossett

A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even for one day. A gas balloon, which usually uses helium, has the problem that the helium cools at night when the sun is not on it, and you have to throw ballast overboard to keep it from going to the surface.

American Aviator

Buzz Aldrin

As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly represented the best of us, as they climbed aloft on a plume of propellant gasses, reaching for the stars, to inspire us who were Earthbound.

American Astronaut

Richard Bach

Same with anyone who's been flying for years and loves it still... we're part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we're one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!

American Novelist

Walter Gropius

The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.

German Architect

Richard Preston

Dragonflies kill their prey in the air and eat it on the wing. They feed on aerial plankton, which consists of any sort of small living thing that happens to be aloft - mosquitoes, midges, moths, flies, ballooning spiders.

Ethan Canin

Doubt is the enemy of mania. It's trying to get aloft strung with weights. The moment I like writing is three sentences in, when somehow those weights drop away, and you can invent. I cannot tell you the dread I have.

American Author

Julian Baggini

The truly humble feel the ground beneath their feet every day and do not only become aware of it when held aloft or pushed down to their knees.

British Author

Hermann Oberth

The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.

German Scientist

Use 'aloft' for things flying or suspended in the air, like kites or clouds.

Airborne Activity

'Aloft' is rarely used for people unless they're in flight, like pilots or astronauts.

Not for People

Sometimes, 'aloft' can be used metaphorically to describe high spirits or hopes.

Metaphorical Use

In nautical contexts, 'aloft' often refers to sailing masts and rigging on ships.

Nautical Use

Working aloft on a ship requires special skills and is often regarded with respect.

Specific Skill

Use 'aloft' to emphasize the impressive height something reaches, not just that it's up.

Height Perspective

Although it may indicate height, 'aloft' isn't typically used for stationary buildings.

Not for Buildings

'Aloft' can have connotations of freedom, when describing birds or other objects in flight.

Emphasizing Freedom

 so I could have a shower whenever I needed to go to work, as I didn't yet have one. It was when it came time to raise the beam on my own house that holds the structure aloft -- a beam that I cut out of an abandoned recycling factory down the street when not a single wall was left standing --

My $500 house in Detroit...

 gazing at the passing clouds. Like everyone else at the time, he had no idea how clouds formed, or how they stayed aloft. But he enjoyed observing their endless transformations. By his own admission, Luke paid little attention to his lessons, but fortunately for the future of meteorology,

How did clouds get their...

 powerful trade winds here in the Hawaiian Islands to keep them aloft as long as they want they only return to land to raise their chicks the chicks are on a tight schedule in just a few months they have to develop the strength

Tiger Shark vs....

 to soar they're creatures of the wind living in the sky and there's some powerful trade winds here in the Hawaiian Islands to keep them aloft as long as they want they only return to land to raise their chicks the chicks

Best '08 Albatross vs....

SHARK vs. BIRD PIPE...

 aloft in this journey so having a way to be able to monitor not only human vaccines but our cultural vaccines will really change our world fixing supply chains it may not sound very glamorous

Tracking the journey of...

 use the shallow lagoon that occupies the centre of the atoll as their training ground. It's difficult for some of them to stay aloft for long.

The Most Dramatic...

Incredible Animal...

 use the shallow lagoon that occupies the center of the atoll as their training ground it's difficult for some of them to stay aloft for long

Aloft

In the air or sky.

Often appears as...

Above the deck of a ship.

Often appears as...

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At or to great height.

Often appears as...

Airborne Activity

Not for People

Metaphorical Use

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