STILT in a Sentence

Learn STILT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for STILT, such as:

1. He writes in a formal and rather stilted style.
2. That's just the stilted sort of thing I've tried to avoid.

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 Meanings and Examples of STILT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stilt
 n.  long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird; one of two stout poles with foot rests in the middle
Classic Sentence:
1  Without understanding when or how, without a tangible change in the stilted intoning of the stage-puppets, she was conscious of another time and place.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  Only the Henty books and the Elsie books and the latest optimisms by moral female novelists and virile clergymen were in general demand, and the board themselves were interested only in old, stilted volumes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  That's just the stilted sort of thing I've tried to avoid.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
Example Sentence:
1  The other irony, of course, is that people live in small stilt houses over the water - there are no cars in the village.
2  His stilted rhetoric did not impress the college audience; they were immune to bombastic utterances.
3  He writes in a formal and rather stilted style.