adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
hold
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Perched precariously on top of the load was the loader, holding aloft the corn-dolly for all to see.
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The birth is recorded in an odd shot of the nurse gleefully holding aloft the bloody placenta.
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Where was my mother in her white apron and holding aloft a wooden spoon?
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The rattle of the sword he had held aloft echoed across the cobblestones.
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V., a plastic bag of some clear solution held aloft by one of the paramedics.
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Instead, Mr Fittipaldi held aloft a bottle of orange juice from his farm.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The national flag was flying aloft .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the motive behind her achievement was not self-interest alone, nor the desire to carry aloft the banner of feminism.
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He described times when the radar crew received requests for winds aloft at eighty thousand feet, ninety thousand feet.
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He looked aloft at the distant ceiling, and at the expanse of sparsely-curtained window space.
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Kruger took up a sword-sharp scimitar and held it aloft for blessing.
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Sanson drew out the head, holding it aloft by the hair to show the crowd.
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The film was of large happy female peasants dancing, with garlands held aloft .
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The six-man, one-woman crew plans to spend 17 days aloft , a shuttle record.