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.
This dinosaur may have shed its feathers like modern songbirds|Carolyn Gramling|July 16, 2020|Science News
There was a sense of standing together on the precipice, but holding each other aloft by sheer will, conjoined by rage.
‘The Normal Heart’ and Hope in the Battlefield of AIDS|Michael Musto|May 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Then all heads being uncovered below and aloft, the chaplain read the solemn service of the dead.
Hard Cash|Charles Reade
Aloft in the crow's-nest the lookout lowered his eyes from scouring the horizon to stare at Prester Kleig—who was pointing.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930|Various
He held them aloft in triumph, treading water while he held the other's head under the sea as a punishment for his thievery.
The Boy Aviators in Africa|Wilbur Lawton
Dromund took the sword, at once raised it aloft and struck a blow at Angle.
Grettir The Strong|Unknown
To add to their misfortune, two men were blown overboard, from aloft, and drowned.
Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836|Robert FitzRoy
British Dictionary definitions for aloft
aloft
/ (əˈlɒft) /
adverb, adjective(postpositive)
in or into a high or higher place; up above
nauticalin or into the rigging of a vessel
Word Origin for aloft
C12: from Old Norse ā lopt in the air; see lift1, loft