aloft

Unlike many aquatic birds, modern songbirds lose only a few feathers at a time, enabling them to stay aloft year-round for foraging or to escape predators.

There was a sense of standing together on the precipice, but holding each other aloft by sheer will, conjoined by rage.

Then all heads being uncovered below and aloft, the chaplain read the solemn service of the dead.

Aloft in the crow's-nest the lookout lowered his eyes from scouring the horizon to stare at Prester Kleig—who was pointing.