How to Use stilt in a Sentence

stilt

1 of 2 noun

• Others raced to be the first skaters, the first stilt-walkers, and the first twins to cross the bridge.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2022
• The gazebo, which is on stilts, sits atop a small hill and has views of the swimming pool.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2023
• Buildings don't have to be built on stilts and the roads are more stable.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2018
• The houses sit on stilts, at the foot of a mountain stacked with looming spruce trees.
  — Julia O’Malley, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• Most homes rest on stilts; red foxes and berry bushes hide in the knee-high grass.
  — Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 18 July 2019
• There will be trick or treating, a corn maze and stilt walkers.
  — Annie Alleman, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• These coastal cabins are built on stilts on the rocky shoreline, hanging over the sea.
  — Jeanne O'Brien Coffey, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• The group talked about stilts, and how they were used in the United States to elevate buildings.
  — Hilary Howard, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• Among other major changes, the couple must put the home on stilts at least 10 feet high.
  — Amy Green, miamiherald, 11 July 2018
• These stilts also allow air to move over the ground, keeping it cool.
  — Melody Schreiber, WIRED, 14 May 2018
• Inside Sven’s full-body costume, a ballet dancer holds stilts in his hands and walks on the tips of his toes.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• To stage right, a handful of dancers on stilts, members of the Agua, Sol y Serano troupe, stepped to the beat of Latin jazz.
  — Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
• Now, the macaques dress in diapers, walk on stilts play air hockey with passers-by.
  — National Geographic, 27 Feb. 2020
• The houses were built on stilts to keep the dwellings above the lake and undulating water levels in the area.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2023
• And the 32 actors, puppeteers and stilt-walkers have yet to arrive.
  — Alix Strauss, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2019
• These wooden party places grace the bay, with stilts planted in the bottom.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2024
• The concept was to do this daylong show with a bunch of absurd stuff, like a goat that blows up balloons and a guy on stilts.
  — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 9 Jan. 2018
• Actors climb six-foot ladders inside the puppets and mount stilts to walk them.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2020
• The land was so watery that shepherds managed their flocks while walking on stilts.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
• The Rod & Reel, which remained intact through the storm and has been in business since 1947, resembles a fishing camp on stilts out in the ocean.
  — Clifford Pugh, San Antonio Express-News, 5 June 2018
• They will be attached to the seabed on telescopic stilts which will allow the city to rise and fall with the waves and cope with rising sea levels.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 26 Mar. 2023
• The former Cavaliers star took us to a part of town where there were some small wooden houses up on stilts.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2019
• The pint-sized stilts provide ventilation for the foundation and hold the house above the moist ground, Maffei said.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2023
• There was a log hive on stilts, and woven skeps, basketlike hives that were popular among the Vikings.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
• His stilt-walking goal is to join the UniverSoul Circus.
  — Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 July 2021
• Enter those stilt-like legs and the hydrofoils beneath them.
  — James Gaines, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2022
• Built on stilts to protect from floods, the 760-square-foot, two-bedroom, one-bath homes are simple and straightforward.
  — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 11 May 2018
• Life begins to change after Cootie is glimpsed by a man who lives in a house on stilts and can see into Cootie’s yard and drops by to offer tamales.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• Nine suites are built on stilts among a canopy of 100-year-old trees along the river with elevated walkways.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2023
• To take samples from the stilts and spikes, archaeologists had to don scuba diving gear and swim down to them.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2023

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stilt

2 of 2 verb

• The men’s letters are studied and stilted, as if they were written to be published.
  — Abby McGanney Nolan, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2017
• On the flipside, this week's other one-on-one date, with Will, is stilted and uncomfortable.
  — Ashley Iaconetti, Cosmopolitan, 28 June 2017
• But even that is not enough to save this awkwardly written, stilted and sometimes just plain cruel movie.
  — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 11 Dec. 2017
• The dialogue is stilted, the costumes are too literal, the sets are drab and the action scenes are poorly directed and hard to follow.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2017
• From photo ops with the Easter Bunny to stilt walkers and juggling sessions to face painting and more, entertainment for all ages will unfold from morning to night.
  — Grace Dickinson, Philly.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• The group’s Web site consists of just a single page, and its Korean is oddly stilted, as if the statements there had been drafted first in a different language, then translated.
  — Suki Kim, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
• The prose can sound stilted, perhaps because pulp, with the underworld’s cultural specificity, can be as difficult to translate as poetry.
  — Special To The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 5 Jan. 2017
• The men’s letters are studied and stilted, as if they were written to be published.
  — Abby McGanney Nolan, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2017
• On the flipside, this week's other one-on-one date, with Will, is stilted and uncomfortable.
  — Ashley Iaconetti, Cosmopolitan, 28 June 2017
• But even that is not enough to save this awkwardly written, stilted and sometimes just plain cruel movie.
  — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 11 Dec. 2017
• The dialogue is stilted, the costumes are too literal, the sets are drab and the action scenes are poorly directed and hard to follow.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2017
• From photo ops with the Easter Bunny to stilt walkers and juggling sessions to face painting and more, entertainment for all ages will unfold from morning to night.
  — Grace Dickinson, Philly.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• The group’s Web site consists of just a single page, and its Korean is oddly stilted, as if the statements there had been drafted first in a different language, then translated.
  — Suki Kim, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
• The prose can sound stilted, perhaps because pulp, with the underworld’s cultural specificity, can be as difficult to translate as poetry.
  — Special To The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 5 Jan. 2017

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