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    Use "stilt" in a sentence

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    stilt


    stilted


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    stilts


    1. The stilt walker had the best view


    2. Stilt walking should keep you busy


    3. throwing dancers, stilt walkers, and women for all of the men


    1. After a few years of nothing but Christmas cards and the odd stilted letter between the two women, which Sheila skimmed over rather ineffectually, Don’s job in Italy ended and they went home to Scotland


    2. The conversation feels stilted and awkward


    3. After several fairly stilted and


    4. ‘Roidon, it is my duty on behalf of Central Council to give you these specific instructions,’ the alien had said in his stilted English


    5. Brock's interpretation was part fact and part revelation, so the conversation had been stilted and difficult


    6. A voice from nowhere interjected suddenly, vibrant and warm, but somewhat stilted:


    7. Ethan shook his head and his stilted smile had the look of tasting salt about it


    8. She had been ready for days with her stilted, regretful little formula


    9. Her English was slightly stilted when she said, “The world is undoubtedly astounded by what we hear


    10. So they had relaxed and let the happy accordion music of French village songs surround them and take the place of what could only be stilted conversation

    11. “Do you have tools?” the Egyptian inquired of Moshe in slightly stilted Hebrew


    12. stilted heels anyway,” he said, smiling broadly, ever appreciating the


    13. Satvinder met with the Director of the Academy as he withdrew from the molding pool before the stilted buildings


    14. Siegemunde appeared on the ramparts of the stilted Academy and uttered a bolt spell


    15. sounded stilted and awkward, like nothing Meares had heard before


    16. you are,‖ he said in that same stilted Terran


    17. JY, sensing concern walked around the vehicle with the stilted gait displayed by a fully cocked pit bulldog


    18. He led them in a stilted and lifeless version of Onward Christian Soldiers


    19. Their voices sounded stilted behind the masks, but were intelligible


    20. There was no hiding the awkward pauses and stilted body language between the two leaders

    21. “The grandiose ‘Imperial Infrastructures’ was the stilted idea of my fucked-up psyche, and as if man’s fate factors the times he lives in to shape his life, Harshad Mehta came onto the scene; can one ever fail to recall the euphoria he had helped generate in the bourses? Hadn’t business magazines, all and sundry that is, goaded the public to sell the family silver to invest in stocks? Oh, how the public issues of never-heard-of-entities without a factory shed to name came to be oversubscribed many times over; and when the bubble was burst as Mehta was caught stealing, how many became broke no one knows


    22. “As I was bogged down with that thought, the negativity of it began to bother me; I was alive to the fact that the seeds of liaisons sprout in the stilted minds of the disaffected spouses, and if Ruma were to take a lover, the slight apart, won’t the scandal be scary


    23. Why for sure Islam in the original form had outlived its utility to the poor believers, and if only the stilted media gets its act right to drive home this point into the minority minds, the interests of the Indian Musalmans would be well-served that its sophism is fouling


    24. Gabriel wasn’t openly rude to Eris as we ate, but each time she tried to engage him in conversation, he replied with stilted, one worded answers


    25. My stilted words soon gained momentum


    26. The church service was stilted and formal and


    27. She had managed to get in a few words with him the previous day but the conversation had been stilted


    28. What the hell---life beyond orbit was rarely a matter of prudence and stilted decorum, and there was always something to be said for brute force


    29. She wasn’t much of a small-talker, so the conversation was a bit stilted


    30. “Is this because of work and your feeling stilted there?”

    31. O'Reilly's voice had taken on the stilted cadence of a formal


    32. So then she’d rush out to help put the clothes on the line and make stilted chitchat while all the words she couldn’t say poured through her head: Just come back home, Abigail, come back home and stop this


    33. Instead, she tried to concentrate on his hands, the stilted moves of his fingers as he straightened everything once, then twice, then a third time, then a fourth


    34. I forced myself not to drink the last two until I had the water tank in sight and by 4:30 there it was: the stilted legs of the burned fire lookout on a rise in the distance


    35. What followed was a strange and stilted conversation


    36. There’s something cocky and stilted about the way he moves, and of course that could be a sign that he’s just an ordinary druggie and petty thief


    37. Next, I began a rather stilted interview with a women’s magazine and was trying to patiently answer ridiculous questions about my favorite fabrics when the conversation unexpectedly veered into uncharted territory


    38. His English was good, if a little stilted


    39. He took a stilted breath


    40. A stilted way of putting it: a year after I embarked on my journey

    41. It was stilted, precise, and rehearsed


    42. He is not easily astonished, he is still less easily terrified, he makes songs on superstitions, he takes the wind out of exaggerations, he twits mysteries, he thrusts out his tongue at ghosts, he takes the poetry out of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas


    43. He touched the books and listened to the air in the dim hallway where dinnertime voices drifted up from below and a door stood wide near his elbow, from which the faint scent of illness came and went, arrived and departed, with the stilted breathing of some patient within the room


    44. “His appearance,—I forget what description you gave of his appearance;—a sort of raw curate, half strangled with his white neckcloth, and stilted up on his thicksoled high-lows, eh?”


    1. The unusual hesitation and stilting of Annie’s reply, immediately caught Kathy’s attention, and she was reminded once again of just who was in the room with them and why


    1. Stilts: If you are walking on stilts, it means that you are conceited and arrogant


    2. The sound of water draining out of a shower-barrel up on stilts, or a squelchy-farty sound as a man on the latrine worked things out


    3. They drove the single lane through the salt flats to his home on stilts among the reeds, bringing with them whiskey and beer on ice


    4. canvas chalets project out from the river bank on stilts over the


    5. up on squat cement stilts


    6. The warriors strode beyond the marketplace and assorted homes, built on stilts above the soggy earth


    7. The warriors departed from the Martial Academy and stayed at a town house on stilts across from the marketplace of the lich folk


    8. The stilts we had used had no legs to stand on


    9. Spinning Bob had a large wooden bar built on stilts


    10. If it is true that as dwarfs, our desire would be that to climb up onto the shoulders of the giants and not of other dwarfs, maybe even more dangerous, and find dwarfs that think they are giants, only because they have stilts

    11. It is no use trusting these giants, therefore; one cannot lean on these fictitious giants to see better, to dream, to realize/be realized since they are nothing but dwarfs with stilts, dwarfs dressed up as giants


    12. I’d seen a high camera platform built on stilts at the beginning of the


    13. What just walked across me, a man wearing stilts?


    14. I could wear contact lenses, though not all the time as my eyes dry out quickly, but apart from stilts and breast implants I was stuck with what mother nature had blessed me with


    15. included a New Guinea house high off the ground on stilts, Hawaiian beach huts, elegant


    16. see it on stilts


    17. For now the last of the fleet of ships was round the last low point we had headed; and the last green barge, straw-laden, with a brown sail, had followed; and some ballast-lighters, shaped like a child's first rude imitation of a boat, lay low in the mud; and a little squat shoal-lighthouse on open piles stood crippled in the mud on stilts and crutches; and slimy stakes stuck out of the mud, and slimy stones stuck out of the mud, and red landmarks and tidemarks stuck out of the mud, and an old landing-stage and an old roofless building slipped into the mud, and all about us was stagnation and mud


    18. It was drafty, rickety, perched on thin stilts over the river, with showers that pumped foul-smelling water directly from the Hudson over the boys’ heads


    19. The bombs were overtaking them, making a sound that one man likened to the footfalls of a giant: Boom … boom … BOOM … BOOM! At last, Louie and Phil spotted a native hut built on flood stilts


    20. Now, with the parade, hundreds of feet rang and clustered on the grille as the carnival strode by on stilts, roared by in tiger and volcano sounds and colours

    21. "Little redheaded Blood Hunter on stilts? Why should I care about the goal of your life? Ash Templeton, you said


    22. "Boilers on stilts, I tell you, striding along like men


    23. There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks, striding along the deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while beneath you and between your legs, as it were, swim the hugest monsters of the sea, even as ships once sailed between the boots of the famous Colossus at old Rhodes


    24. Twice before had this thing happened, and the little eating house stood upon stilts of cottonwood logs to be above the flood line, while the lodging house was on higher ground


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    Synonyms for "stilt"

    himantopus stilt long-legs longlegs stilt stilt plover stiltbird australian stilt pile piling spile

    "stilt" definitions

    a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure


    one of two stout poles with foot rests in the middle; used for walking high above the ground


    long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia


    long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons