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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
hoist .
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Examples
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(An Avoider), the responsibility for her daughters promisuity is not her's as a mother, Ms Palin hoisted it on the McCain organization because they chose to characterize her as a caring and supportive mother, hello, facts appear to support that she know her daughter was intimate with Levi and ignored the fact, preaching instead of acting is a characteristic of a Malignant Narcissist.
CNN Poll: Most Americans say Palin not qualified to serve as president 2009
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Freshly purged crawfish are hoisted from a purging tank at Southeast Texas Crawfish Farm.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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Freshly purged crawfish are hoisted from a purging tank at Southeast Texas Crawfish Farm.
Lenten "mudbugs" 2007
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"That's 10, fellows," Miller shouted to his teammates as defensive linemen Wallace Gilberry and Rudy Griffin hoisted the Cotton Bowl trophy over their heads and paraded it in front of the Crimson Tide fans.
USATODAY.com - Christensen helps Alabama pick off Cotton Bowl win 2006
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The ship was brought alongside the ice face and anchored securely with ice anchors, a gang-way was put over her side, and stones hoisted from the hold and sent down the chutes where they were sledged away to a more solid fixed ice near the land.
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The rope broke and the corpse dropped with a thud, but it was again hoisted, the charred legs barely touching the ground.
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Presently a flag of truce was hoisted from the top of this fort.
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He arose, but in the short interval, the throne had been hoisted from the floor to the ceiling, the Imperial figure appeared in new and more gorgeous apparel, and the interview was concluded in haughty and majestic silence.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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He again hoisted up the crate and followed her; till she stopped at a fruiterer’s shop and bought from him Shami140 apples and Osmani quinces and Omani141 peaches, and cucumbers of Nile growth, and Egyptian limes and Sultani oranges and citrons; besides
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I daresay she put her petard out there to be hoisted, which is what she's being paid to do.
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