tilting

Example Sentences

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After the “interactive dynamic” — Potí’s exercises akin to group therapy — she taught stilting technique, then the class strapped on the unwieldy apparatuses.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2024

Happy Days saw high school dropout the Fonz finally receive his high school diploma—an honorable achievement, though watching again I balked at his stilting sermon on why “quittin’ things is definitely not cool-a-mundo.”

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2014

The U.S. press has broken free from some of the outdated taboos and cliches that still keep news-writing stilting along behind the racy spoken word.

From Time Magazine Archive

In windows and in the arches connecting the dome columns to the wall stilting is sometimes carried to extremes.

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander

I have been stilting about in his style so long that it is a relief to me to come down to the jog of common english.

From Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe by Stowe, Harriet Beecher