How To Use Tilted In A Sentence

Yes, I know it's rather stilted, nay overwrought, prose.
Sometimes when you think the sky is about to fall down, you might be standing tilted!
And what caps this dizzy display is not seriously ordered fugato, let alone a full fugue, but a comically stilted allegro dance in duple rhythm, with octave leaps, mostly in two parts with chordal intrusions.
At a glance, the house seems relatively liveable, but on closer inspection, the structure is tilted to one side and the floor has completely collapsed.
The bed was rickety, with a thin knotty mattress; the sand-colored walls were scratched and gouged; in every corner, under everything, were fluffy dust and cigar ashes; on the tilted wash-stand was a nicked and squatty pitcher; the only chair was a grim straight object of spotty varnish; but there was an altogether splendid gilt and rose cuspidor. Main Street

The use of the word tilted in the sentence "Thinking caps tilted at a jaunty angle". EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines
In this rather archaically written biography, marred by ornate, stilted language and the author's reliance on and citation of endlessly extended passages from his great-great-grandfather's autobiography, James Mellon struggles mightily but fails to make his readers care much for or about Thomas Mellon. Banking On the Future
The country here is an expanse of smoothish tilted slopes, big, empty, and lonely, and crossed (at about the middle point) by a strange narrow gut or gully, up which the railway once ran to Montauban. The Old Front Line
But he's already tilted at, and failed to land, Spain's Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria and Germany's Commerzbank.
Yet it is not difficult to understand why the balance has tilted towards athletics.
Square back pockets that aren't tilted make your bottom look peachy. Times, Sunday Times
His delivery is stilted, stiff, uninflected - except when he's permitted to shout, at which point he relaxes and seems to forget to be inhibited.
Because Ganymede's orbit is tilted nearly edge-on to Earth, it routinely can be seen passing in front of and disappearing behind its giant host, only to reemerge later.
Marvellous actors have to deliver stilted, arch and laughably clichéd dialogue. Times, Sunday Times
The boat instantly tilted, filled and sank.
(A hootch is a long, single-story, stilted wooden building of typical Thai rural design. Thud Ridge
Her head was tilted up, checking the luff of the mainsail, and she didn't notice him. CORMORANT
Typical projection optics designs feature NAs of around 0.25 and consist of at least six aspherical mirror surfaces, with reflections tilted off-axis.
In those days, his stilted style, forced delivery, and wonky timing were virtues, reinforcing our sense of his hypothetically heartwarming kidness.
She just tilted her chin and looked deep into my eyes, just like her mum does. The Sun
Khaddad dismissed as an unproven assumption the notion that the final status referendum would be tilted in Morocco's favour.
* Because the axis on which our planet spins is tilted relative to the axis of rotation around the sun, we experience longer days and shorter nights during the half of the year when the hemisphere on which we happen to live is tilted sunwards, the period that climaxes in summer. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
Mud was piled everywhere, over the splintered and broken planks that had once formed the deck of the piers and been cast against the rabbled river walls, up almost to the top of the tilted and shortened stone pillars that had comprised the base of the piers. Colors of Chaos
Besides their historical interest Cicero's letters are models of what good letters ought to be -- the expression of the writer's real thoughts and feelings in simple, unstilted language. Early European History
Government tax policy has tilted toward industrial development.
He was taken entirely into her confidence, as will presently be seen, and she even called him in to assist her when she was conducting an elaborate and stilted epistolatory flirtation with Lord Peterborough. Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732)
‘See,’ he whispered as her bra followed the path of her dress and her creamy tip-tilted breasts swayed and settled high against her slender ribcage. Mistress for a Weekend
The knight tilted at his opponent.
The New Yorker essayist George Plimpton also remembered that invasion of the Harlem peacocks in their enormous purple Cadillacs: "I'd never seen crowds as fancy, especially the men – felt hatbands and feathered capes, and the stilted shoes, the heels like polished ebony, and many smoking stuff in odd meerschaum pipes. The night Muhammad Ali's legend was reborn – and the party that followed
Her laugh purred gently, her throat bobbing back and forth to expel the light sounds from her gaping mouth, her head tilted back and up. Pectoralis Minor
Following his instructions, we resealed the barrels and tilted them on their sides, Parker climbing on one and I on the other. Odd Girl In
I shall type in stilted sentences, where humorous. September 5th, 2005
The world has tilted on its axis this week. Times, Sunday Times
She closed her eyes tight and tilted her face towards the sky. Times, Sunday Times
As a nun she is beatific, her head, in a wimple, tilted toward heaven, a prayer book clasped to her breast.
Its seat was tilted up on hinges to reveal a narrow passage down into the bowels of the ship. BLACKWATER SOUND
His voice sounded unnatural and stilted, but I barely noticed as I thought about making out with Dmitri against the rough bark of the tree in the forest.
The action scenes were cheesily done, preposterous, and stuck together in a stilted fashion.
Looking to his host for consent, Cornell tilted the demijohn over his arm and partly filled the four tin mugs and an empty jelly glass. CHAPTER 20
The full mouth and tip-tilted nose gave her a provocative air. DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
That's what comes of trying to satisfy them fellows," one City Father observed, in an indignant and unstilted speech to his colleagues. The Philistines
At right, on a crumpled white cloth, a collection of kitchen implements is painstakingly composed—a tilted ladle, a gleaming jug, shiny copper cooking vessels and a favorite trompe l'oeil conceit of a knife on a diagonal that edges precariously into our space. A Monumental Moment
The helical axis was tilted by an angle of 35° with respect to the central plane.
Its seat was tilted up on hinges to reveal a narrow passage down into the bowels of the ship. BLACKWATER SOUND
He recognized that all of the beaches had been tilted by postglacial uplift (now attributed to isostatic rebound).
Like the 1939 classic it adores, Australia is stiltedly comical, sweepingly starry-eyed, and melodramatic in its approach to war and racism. Buzzine » DVD Roundup
The ground tilted sharply downwards.
She tilted her head, her gaze cool as it locked on Kai's.
Sonny tilted back in his chair.
His hat was tilted slightly at an angle.
She watched as he tilted his hat back on his head and drew on his cigarette.
The dash is neatly laid out and a pop-up panel houses the screen for the sat nav which can be tilted to remove glare.
She just tilted her chin and looked deep into my eyes, just like her mum does. The Sun
The problem, again, is the ship is canted over at such an angle, they may not even be able to use their escape trunks because, you know, because the degree to which the ship is tilted prevents the hatches from opening.
You can stay in a grass hut with sunset views for a few pounds and it's wonderful, but for just shy of £50, you get into Bon Ton, a beautiful resort of antique stilted fishermen's houses overlooking a water-lilied lagoon.
The Mesozoic layers, probably SW-tilted after the Mesozoic extension, were also folded.
His Russian prose, too, though full of ironic tricks and intricate detail, tilted toward the sentimental.
Chest out, glowing with pride we return to base with labrador on lap and conversation stilted.
The mountain field is tiptilted.
She tilted the mirror and began to comb her hair.
I tilted my head backward from its position on his shoulder and looked upward at his strong suntanned face and intoxicating blue eyes.
Because of a tradition of teaching English formally through grammar, translation, and literature, spoken usage is often stilted and bookish.
Other more localized areas appear to have melted over broad regions and blocks of ice have foundered, tilted, and become refrozen.
I've been reading some Mexican newspapers on line and on paper lately, and I find that their language is a sort of stilted, circumlocutious style. Mexican Newspaper Language
ERGONOMICS . Tilted steering wheel . Automotive controls.
In such cases, the gait is stilted, that is, there is incomplete advancement of both members and, of course, the period of weight bearing is correspondingly shortened; hence the short strides. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
So, skip the stilted villa and make a romantic escape of your own. Times, Sunday Times
I glanced worriedly at Rora, her long flaming hair covered her face that was tilted towards the cold ground.
A translation that is clumsy or stilted will scream its presence. Times, Sunday Times
Scarring from adhesions as a result of endometriosis or fibroids can also cause the uterus to shift to a tilted or retroflexed state.
Franco heard his name and tilted his head to one side. Beacon Street Girls: Ready! Set! Hawaii!
Whenever you run across a name carded in this stilted fashion, "A. Thingumy Soandso", you may make up your mind at once that the owner is ashamed of his first name and is trying manfully to live it down and eventually forgive his parents. Man on the Box
As I slid my room card in the swiper, I tilted over. Times Squared
The marble flags I ran on tilted endways, flinging me down on hands and knees. The King Must Die
She thunderstruck the audience with her grounded, undulating attack and startling series of parallel, tilted cabrioles.
It complained that the terms of the distribution deal were tilted too heavily in the other party's favor.
Since the media is quick to jump on the Clinton bandwagon, expect to see the first round of reporting -- I mean "stenography" -- tilted in her favor. Poll: Majority Disagree With Obama On "Bitter" Remarks
She will be staying with the Karen people in their stilted houses in the bamboo and teak jungle where there is no electricity.
At one point in Act I they all stand on the tilted stage, in a straight line, during one of the interludes.
If she tilted her head back she could see a hawk circling in the air, its magnificent wings beating steadily to keep it in the air.
Tiger has tilted the playing field from one based on finesse and shotmaking to one in which power is paramount.
“A form of language spoken by millions of people … can surely not be called undignified,” he argued, finding “real dignity … in the colloquial language of the people, not in the stilted artificial style of books.” PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
The Tukar'ramin's view tilted, following a black fleck of impurity up the glowing pipeline, starward, into sucking void, high beyond air's clutching. Tides Of Light
When the desired amount of metal is melted, the remaining electrode is quickly retracted and the crucible tilted to pour the metal into the mold.
In both the English dub and subtitles, the dialogue is a bit wordy and stilted, but it's rarely distracting.
I know that generally strained and stilted conversations can't really be described as compelling, but this was a unique situation.
The stilted atmosphere would strike outsiders as disconcertingly weird, but these women are oblivious to the awkwardness.
She tilted the mirror and began to comb her hair.
The pool of available people doing opinion writing is still tilted toward men.
If the weekend turned out to be a horrible mistake, at least I wouldn't have to endure five hours of strained stilted conversations on the return journey.
An initially stilted conversation is oiled by wine, and the pair open up and discuss their lives, their loves and their politics. Times, Sunday Times
At the final patient's bed the ward sister drew back the curtains to reveal a patient sitting at the edge of the bed with his head tilted forward and pinching the tip of his nose.
He tilted the barrel so as to empty it.
the headstones were tilted
The man's upturned eyes and tilted head play off traditional saintly poses in Spanish religious sculpture.
Some of the dialogue is a little stilted, and is the stuff that looks great on paper but rings odd when spoken aloud. Review: Majestic XII: Top Secret/For Majic Eyes Only #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
How could your reviewer let the writer's stilted portrayal go unnoted?
The plane tilted to port.
Andy had often sat there, like she was now, and had always tilted her head to stare at the oak tree.
With grazing incidence diffraction a monoclinic tilted chain lattice is found in the condensed phase.
Shy, somewhat stilted conversation is made in the shallow end or the showers. Times, Sunday Times
The boat's prow tilted up like the high end of a seesaw, hovered for a moment in the air, then dropped into the white current. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Where the centre is at a point above the diameter, it is called a stilted arch. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
In the process, most dollars are left flowing through traditional transportation "stovepipes" that are tilted heavily to roads over transit, traffic "throughput" over community livability. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
The dialogue sounded stilted and unnatural, perhaps because of the translation from the original Russian.
She held it to his mouth and slowly tilted it forward, letting him gulp down the tea.
And M. Amis on Nabokov in toto in the prenominate The M.ral Obligation to Be Intelligent, edited by Leon Wieseltier {The style is dated and stilted, but the insights are not. Snarksmith: new york. gossip. art. politics. pop culture. literature. etc.
But I also tilted my head a lot, like a cat straining to hear a really weird sound.
“So …” The Basotho man tilted the rearview mirror to get a better view of the passenger seat. Let The Dead Lie
Bring to the boil and simmer with tilted lid for 10 min until the vegetables are tender. Times, Sunday Times
The car ahead on the offramp was a black Camaro tilted high in the back, with dual chrome exhaust pipes and green flames snaking over the trunk lid, every detail gleaming, even the wide tires looking new or recently cleaned. Offramp
Venus tilted back her head, blowing a lungful of blue smoke toward the ceiling. DOUBTING THOMAS
Boil with a tilted lid for about 8 min until the potato is tender. Times, Sunday Times
He recited the words and managed to keep it from sounding hokey or stilted, and the rest of his speech was genuinely inspiring, not just the usual catch-phrases.
Hopefully, as Nintendo localizes this RPG for other territories, the King Arthur-like story is fleshed out not with overly stilted dialogue, but with fast, smart exchanges that keep us interested in the characters. Nintendo Wii 2010 Line Up Part 2 | CurveHouse.com
In both the English dub and subtitles, the dialogue is a bit wordy and stilted, but it's rarely distracting.
The boat's prow tilted up like the high end of a seesaw, hovered for a moment in the air, then dropped into the white current. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
He tilted his head, admiring the view and the way her jeans hugged and pulled.
This excerpt is a good example of Hemans's style, which is either "false stilted and trashy" or "sweet and elegant," depending on your point of view. Contesting the Heterodoxy: Mrs. Hemans vs. Lord Byron
Michael Lerman at indieWIRE: "Sweet, saccharine and stiltedly hilarious, Eagle vs Shark, though downbeat, hits many of the right notes to reach a wide audience and still feel charmingly small in scale despite the fact that it is co-funded by Miramax. GreenCine Daily: Sundance. Eagle vs Shark.
By now, the error count had tilted heavily against Newcastle. Times, Sunday Times
Yet even as I watched, the gold leaf tilted slowly down toward the vertical, at ever-increasing speed.
His soup bowl snaked from his tray, tipped, tilted, the liquid ran steaming to the bowl in front of Byrkin.
Isabella tilted her head again, in the same pose she had assumed when he first saw her.
Since the two iliac bones are bound strongly together at the centre front, the bony pelvis (sacrum and iliac bones) can only be tilted as a whole by movement at the hip joints and by bending the spine.
While Oriol works, his head cupped in one hand while he jots notes or tilted inquisitively over a chunk of cooked squash, he is the picture of stillness. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
(See mele beginning _Ko'i maka nui_, p. 228.) _Ko'i honua_ (ko'i ho-nú-a) -- a compound of the causative _ko_, _i_, to utter, and _honua_, the earth; to recite or cantillate in a quiet distinct tone, in distinction from the stilted bombastic manner termed ai-ha'a (p. 58). Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula
Behind me, 20 yards to my right, is Raymond - with his baseball cap tilted back on his head, looking rather less the part than me in my borrowed Barbour deerstalker.
The highly tilted orbit of Haumea and elongated one of Sedna suggest something even more dramatic perhaps shook up the early comet belt, such as a supernova blast from a nearby star's implosion. Dwarf planets Pluto, Eris battle for a spot in a vast universe
John Monnier, another one of the team leaders, admits that he was skeptical about all this tilted-disk business; it just seemed like a house of cards. Discover Blogs
Steve poured the first batch into the hopper, and tilted it into the hot air chamber, also known as ‘the crucible‘.
The scriptwriter's Danish, right, and because they haven't corrected his dialogue a lot of it sounds really stilted and forced and unnatural.
Sitting on the stone bench now she tilted her head up towards the sky and the welter of bare branches overhead.
The girl tilted her head forward.
At Baugé in 1421 the Scots soldiery tilted the balance against the English.
In a stilted encounter, the political enemies sought to bury their differences, at least in public. Times, Sunday Times
A sofa with a baldachin is forced onto its stilted knees.
It is a stilted glitch house that emerges- and one that maintains a different kind of funk- one that is cut off at every opportunity, one that is not free flowing, but one that demands attention.
Even before the senate voted, the White House attacked the plan, saying it's tilted more towards lenders than homeowners.
Yet even as I watched, the gold leaf tilted slowly down toward the vertical, at ever-increasing speed.
The wolf just sat there and tilted its head with an inquisitive whimper.
His chin was tilted up, creating a belligerent mask-like effect, readily magnified by the frosted glare of his eyes.
The US court documents also lays bare the stiltedly textbook spycraft used by the Russians to identify their own side. Russian spies row raises diplomatic tensions
She tilted her head back to smile at him through teary eyes.
The gaslit sidewalk and Vincent tilted, then shifted, peeling away to reveal a concrete floor awash in water. Etched in Bone
To at least be dull and pedestrian in a way that seemed natural and unstilted. The Guardian World News
Push the grout diagonally across the tile with the float tilted at a 45-degree angle.
A small moan escaped her pink lips as she tilted her head to allow him better access to her throat and neck.
Sometimes when you think the sky is about to fall down, you might be standing tilted!
The trailer came to rest tilted on its offside wheels, the nearside wheels raised off the road by about two feet.
She tilted the mirror and began to comb her hair.
And while you may not swear or shout aloud, your writing slows, words dropping stiff and stilted.
Inch by inch we tilted the cabin on its side until it leaned at an angle.
She tilted her face to kiss me quickly on the chin.
It is a decent hour of telly, although the host trio's terribly stilted conversations appear scripted. Times, Sunday Times
Her brows tilted perplexedly, accenting the nuance of diablerie, delicate and fascinating, that they cast upon the flower face. The Moon Pool
My mother tilted her head and smiled.
Conversations become stilted and whispered, the drinks were poured stronger, they removed the tarps disguising the twin Brownings and walked the deck with revolvers in their belts.
Where one partner is heavier than the other the whole sleeping surface may be tilted to one side. Survive the Nine to Five - a woman's guide to working well
She kept rolling now until the starboard wing was tilted upward at forty degrees. Bomber
His hat was tilted slightly at an angle.
They have voted for her despite her unsteady singing voice and a stilted stage performance. Times, Sunday Times
Suddenly, the cyclone rose up off the ground and tilted sideways toward them, looking like a long snake.
At a glance, the house seems relatively liveable, but on closer inspection, the structure is tilted to one side and the floor has completely collapsed.
You will end up listening to their stilted conversations and trying to guess how long they've been together. Times, Sunday Times
This should be part of the stilted conversation we are having with the rest of the EU. Times, Sunday Times
He tilted his head to one side in an almost bird-like manner.
She collected water in a red plastic cup, then tilted the cup over her belly, letting the thin stream plash onto her skin where it split apart into rivulets that ran down the sides of her pregnant dome. ALONE With You
So, skip the stilted villa and make a romantic escape of your own. Times, Sunday Times
The helicopter rose six feet into the air, tilted forward to gain airspeed, and buried its nose-wheel in the ground.
Oddly, he cannot run in human form, instead he walks with a strange, goofy prance of sorts, head and body tilted back, and led by his tiny feet.
He tilted the hat to a jauntier angle and said, "How ever will the girls keep their legs closed when they see me walking down the street? Rulers of the Darkness
The dialogue sounded stilted and unnatural, perhaps because of the translation from the original Russian.
With her tip-tilted nose and sheaf of brown hair, Mulgrew as Isolt even resembles John W. Waterhouse's Pre-Raphaelite paintings of mythic medieval heroines.
Untilted lives up to its title, finding Booth and Brown unbowed in their belief that clinical repetition and street-smart hip-hop beats can coexist in the universe.
The helical axis was tilted by an angle of 35° with respect to the central plane.
A black, felt bowler sits on his head, tilted slightly forward at a rakish angle.
It was stilted, formal and embarrassing. Times, Sunday Times
He tilted his head, his belled hat jingling faintly, when the king just sputtered, red-faced, instead of answering his question.
Too often, the record sounds forced and stilted, which is unfortunate, since jazz/hip-hop fusion need a musician of Redman's caliber to make it credible in the jazz world. AvaxHome RSS:
Despite the weight of the office, vivacious men such as Churchill, Clarke and Jenkins remained unstilted: in April 1929, the Spectator praised Churchill’s final budget speech both for its content and for its “mesmeric and witty delivery”. Brown is either fleet-footed or indecisive – he cannot be both
This time it not only slid out into the room, but it also tilted sharply and bounced the officer off in such a way that he collided with the corner of Clifton's desk and gashed his head open.
He pushed his fringes behind his ears and tilted his head, expecting an answer.
A little covey of fingernails scratched down into the corner, and when I tilted it back the other way, they slid to another. GENIE ON THE LOOSE
Happy had the tip-tilted eyes of an Asian American and would have been pretty good looking, if not for the hate-filled expression on his face. Undead and Unworthy
Uranus is unusual because it is tilted.
He shook my hand somewhat stiltedly, as if he was uncomfortable touching people. Chocolate & Vicodin
She typed the English into her datapad and tilted it slightly so Stormsong could see the screen. Another snippet that didn't fit in
unstilted conversation
The shrill voice echoed in the earpiece and Judith automatically tilted the phone away from her ear.
The entire stern section of the wreck is tilted aft and to starboard.
The skull has an broad, tilted zygomatic plate that serves as the attachment point for the lateral branch of the masseter muscle.
A trio of cats gazed up at her, curiously eyeing her approach with heads tilted one way or another.
The conversations between characters, using this Norse style language became stilted and detracted from the story's natural dramatical element. Reader reviews of The Thrall's Tale by Judith Lindbergh.
The 300 year-old half-timbered stilted building in the High Street has been a focal point for the town for many years.
In general, these spruce appeared clawed, debarked, broken, ripped out of the ground, buried under large piles of peat, or tilted at ground level, damage that likely occurred during excavation at the dens by polar bears.
Not even for a new left hand, a keeper, would Wallingford have blinked or looked away from that sideslipping view of the dark-green trees and the suddenly tilted horizon. The Fourth Hand
Sadly, in the sober light of day, conversation is stilted. The Sun
Attempts to generate supplementary material to help those coming to it as a medium for the first time, to give some insight into how productions are created, but still evolve, can just seem stilted and off-putting.
The humor, if one may call it that, consists of having Anna and Claire exchanging, in endless one-upmanship, insults whose flowery and stiltedly archaizing language is periodically littered with today's grossest obscenities.

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