loft
noun
a room, storage area, or the like within a sloping roof; attic; garret.
had lofted
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past perfectof loft.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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They looked so shy, so endearingly perplexed in their green overcoats and silly moth-eaten caps, the long earflaps out at an angle, as if the air had lofted them mid-flight.
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2019
Already he had lofted a promotional weather balloon 40 stories above the shopping plaza.
From Washington Post ● May 24, 2015
Al Habsi then produced a brilliant one-handed save to turn away a header from Robert Snodgrass after the left-back Javier Garrido had lofted the ball to the far post.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 15, 2012
That same month a 1.2-meter piece of a Delta 2 rocket motor that in 2003 had lofted a GPS satellite into orbit fell in Uruguay.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 31, 2011
Housewives, who had lofted department store sales in August 16% above the 1932 level, were flocking back to the counters; the downward sweep of the long-delayed normal summer slump seemed to be flattening out.
From Time Magazine Archive
