How to use "lift" in a sentence

The second plan is to try and lift the boulder using some of my equipment

I will use my ropes, webbing and carabiners to try and lift the boulder and free my hand

1.00 pm I've spent four hours trying to lift the boulder, but nothing has worked.

I can't lift the boulder

I try and lift the boulder again by pushing down on the rope with my feet.

When it's open, I try and lift it towards my mouth

Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood

He took the thirty francs and, helping Valjean to lift Marius on to his shoulders, he put the key in the lock and opened the gate just wide enough for Valjean to pass through

I carefully lift my hand and touch the large lump which is there

"Sure," and Dan starts to lift the lid of the trunk

She wanted to fight, or run, but she couldn't lift her legs.

"He didn't lift me."

'What a strange man Max de Winter is,' said Mrs Van Hopper when we were standing in the lift

I walked unhappily to the lift and back to Mrs Van Hopper.

I remember how I ran down the stairs because the lift was too slow

Would you like a lift, Crawley?'

She tried to lift one of them, but it was too heavy

Elliot had the awful feeling that this guy would reach for the button Tina had pushed less than a minute ago, and that the garage door would lift just as the black van was rolling slowly by in the street.

Tina wasn't able to cover her ears; her arms hung straight down at her sides, frozen, rigid, hands fisted, and she couldn't find the will or the strength to lift them

Elliot pointed the pistol at the lift.

The light on the indicator board changed from four to three to two, and the air inside the lift became so frigid that Tina's breath hung in clouds before her