Sentence example with the word 'stilted'

stilted

affected, conventional, flamboyant, gaudy, high-flying, lifted, ostentatious, prim, solemn, tumid, upthrown

Definition adj. artificially formal

Last update: July 14, 2015


2

She said it in a stilted tone.   [Please select]

0

Consequently, an unnatural, rather stilted way of speaking would be required that the users may tire of quickly.   [Please select]

0

First of all you 've got your movement, which initially seems a little stilted on the ground.   [Please select]

0

Long, high-worded, stilted letters the poor boy wrote and rewrote and copied.   [Please select]

0

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 thick-soled high-lows, eh.   [Please select]

0

Friends and strangers alike acted out their stilted scenes before dropping onto the page as words again.   [Please select]

0

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

0

He had been stilted and patronizing, when he had meant to be cordial and kind.   [Please select]

0

Luckily, another couple were by the window, impatient for their departure, talking in stilted phrases.   [Please select]

0

She had been ready for days with her stilted, regretful little formula.   [Please select]

0

"We'd have had to act Shakespeare, or something stilted out of a book."   [Please select]

Do you have a better example in your mind? Please submit your sentence!

Submit
stilt - stilted - stiltedly