Sentence example with the word 'stilt'

stilt

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

Last update: October 8, 2015


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Stilts are used by men in the circus to entertain people.   [Please select]

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CHRISTIANSAND (KRISTIANSAND), a fortified seaport of Norway, the chief town of a diocese (stilt), on a fjord of the Skagerrack, 175 m.   [Please select]

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1), the stilted arch (fig.   [Please select]

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Try as he might to be natural and pleasant, his speech sounded stilted, his words staid.   [Please select]

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The mottoes of the two nations are as well rendered in the vernacular as by any formal or stilted phrases.   [Please select]

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She said, with a curious stilted politeness: "It was very good of you to come."   [Please select]

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And, stilted and stiff as it was, it certainly seemed to imply that she need not relinquish hope.   [Please select]

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It was this feeling that prompted her to write him a note which brought an answer in formal and stilted English.   [Please select]

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No, it was the precise, formal English of a foreigner, with here and there a ludicrous error among the stilted phrases.   [Please select]

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"That some imperfection in the stilted wording of the hidden paper had led us all astray."   [Please select]

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And sitting there by the table, Ann, he drew up an ingenious document couched in the stilted English of a foreigner.   [Please select]

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