How To Use To the hilt In A Sentence
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Holmgren played bad cop to the hilt.
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Dramatic to the hilt, it married a spectacular conflux of Ralph Lauren Safari fragrance ads with the Edwardian elegance of a Nairobi gentleman's club before The Great War.
Georgia Jeffries: Performance Art
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His hand wandered mindlessly to the hilt of the sword that was strapped to his waist.
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Writing and producing in a cross-cultural environment has fired his imagination and he has exploited the situation to the hilt.
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I also work hard but because I am taxed to the hilt I can rarely afford to play hard.
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From here I could see designs were carved into the hilts.
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So all of us who were prudent and saved instead of borrowing to the hilt are about to be well and truly shafted by a bout of hyper-inflation.
Who's for hyper-inflation?
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Yushchenko has played the anti-Russian card to the hilt since his suspicious "Orange Revolution" -, financed by US government-funded "nongovernmental" - organisations, amid accusations that he was poisoned by KGB (excuse me, FSB) agents.
Russian-Ukrainian gas war
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All the actors can do is embrace the melodrama and play it to the hilt.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yes it's true Portland is quite insistent about planning and "livability" and defends its "urban growth boundary" to the hilt -- the law that says certain densities shall not exist outside of an arbitrary line, so as to keep growth and density confined to a smaller area.
Portland's Secret: Urban Renewal via Negro Removal
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I really feel he rounds out the cast well, not because he's the token minority but because he plays the loyal friend to the hilt.
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The ovipositor, which is about four-tenths of an inch in length, is plunged obliquely and up to the hilt into the twig.
Social Life in the Insect World
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Consumers have borrowed up to the hilt, leaving little room for manoeuvre should times get seriously tough.
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As Dominick's hand went to the hilt of the jeweled dagger in his belt, Rose stepped between them.
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Consumers have borrowed up to the hilt, leaving little room for manoeuvre should times get seriously tough.
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Modern design and interior decorating is all about using the existing space to the hilt with creative and innovative thinking along with street-smart solutions that help make your home more beautiful and less crowded.
Kitchen Integrated In Living-Room
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The sword dropped from her nerveless fingers as she slumped forward, trying to stay conscious, using the last of her rapidly-fading strength to lift one hand to the hilt of the dagger at her belt, pulling it free.
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We need to identify objectives and back them to the hilt.
The Sun
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A dragon carved into the hilts of the blades and the grip of the pistol marked their individuality.
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We borrowed to the hilt from the Chinese, and we couldn't even fight the war without the Chinese, but the market is telling us we can't continue to print and create money out of thin air to fight this war and run the domestic welfare state because it will ruin the dollar, and that's what the dollar is telling us today.
CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2008
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For the holidays, the row houses were decorated to the hilt with multicolored lights, life-sized mangers, plastic reindeer hitched on roofs.
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She played it to the hilt as an over-inebriated soprano trying to sing in an operetta.
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$500 in Cash amp Prizes - $.50 Wells apostil Midnight - Ladies FREE I am eating: Going to the Hilton Casino later to try and win $500000 - Good plan:
Stock Market Analysis at DeepMarket
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Suddenly they're dressed to the hilt in 1980s sunglasses, shorts, and a thick gob of zinc oxide on their noses.
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Any man worthy of the name must seize his opportunity when it came and exploit it to the hilt.
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Every Sunday afternoon, she snugly slips into different characters and lives it to the hilt, unleashing mirthful moments with her endearing performances.
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It's common practice for organisations with a budget to make sure they use it to the hilt because they know that an 'underspend' will automatically result in a smaller budget the following year.
Quango chief's dilemma: how best to spend a spare £1m?
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The people who support Obama to the hilt are the same people who ignore every action he actually takes and cling to the notion that his ‘aspirations’ and stated goals are all that matter.
Matthew Yglesias » The Right’s Growth Record
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Any man worthy of the name must seize his opportunity when it came and exploit it to the hilt.
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Jack indulges his best friend's passion for the grape but is mainly interested in living his last week of bachelorhood to the hilt.
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Go hippy to the hilt with a maxidress, biceps bangles and a middle parting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Venus in Taurus lends glamour and a fierce ability to enjoy life to the hilt.
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Not because of rules, or powers, or munchkin uber-builds; because he effin knows how to play his character to the hilt.
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She plays the man-eating vamp stereotype to the hilt.
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you are in this to the hilt
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She played it to the hilt as an over-inebriated soprano trying to sing in an operetta.
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Taxpaying voters, well used to being taxed to the hilt by politicians of all political hues, are right to be so sceptical about the show being put on in front of them.
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Suppose your firm's only asset is a large downtown hotel, mortgaged to the hilt.
Principles of Corporate Finance
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The project naturally developed into collecting not only videos, but also original recordings and remixes into two double albums packed to the hilt with gems.
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The young are in debt mortgaged up to the hilt, and the middle-aged are in clover, sitting on a semi-detached gold mine.
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I go to the Hilton to cool out by the pool bar.
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He defended her to the hilt when she made social faux pas, and would not hear her criticised in his presence.
Times, Sunday Times
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And with Americans so touchy about their civil liberties, the Feds have to be legally covered to the hilt before they go snooping.
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I'm backing the PM to the hilt on this.
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Her hand strayed to the hilt of the small dagger that hung from a black leather belt about her waist at all times, and she took three wary paces forward.
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Then Santiago with a shriek leaped upon me -- shrieked again and, arms flung high, pitched headlong from the teocalli with his own dagger buried to the hilt in his breast.
The Moon of Skulls
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Flavor In the war between the Horde the Alliance, grudges are taken to the hilt.
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Most tend to be nurses, teachers or hold clerical and other pink-collar jobs, while many are stressed to the hilt by family and work demands.
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It wants greater control, to nationalise industries, regulate businesses, and tax everyone to the hilt.
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He frequently complimented her, playing the part of the doting husband to the hilt.
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His guilt was proved up to the hilt.
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Even if your product is patented, trademarked, and protected to the hilt in the U.S., you might not have any protection at all once you start selling overseas.
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Plus I have four credit cards with cash advances to the hilt.
LEGAL TENDER
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He is mortgaged to the hilt and using money for the festival for a glamping site so is dependent on that being a success.
The Sun
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He winced when he realized that he was holding onto the hilt of his scimitar, and let go of his weapon with a snort.
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Since then he has exhibited worldwide - at overseas exhibitions he plays his Englishness to the hilt by turning up wearing plus fours and a deerstalker.
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The judge said the two men lived in a ‘strange and fanciful world’ where they thought they could ‘ride around in cars, armed to the hilt’.
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Setting his hand to the hilt of his sword, he cast the boy the kind of glower intended to help him make the right decision in short order.
The Falcons of Montabard
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She played it to the hilt as an over-inebriated soprano trying to sing in an operetta.
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All the actors can do is embrace the melodrama and play it to the hilt.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had come up to Grandcourt this term pledged to the hilt to work hard and live virtuously.
The Master of the Shell
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As Dominick's hand went to the hilt of the jeweled dagger in his belt, Rose stepped between them.
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She turned to her admirals and generals, asked if we could drive the Argentinians out and backed them to the hilt when they set about the job.
The Sun
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To add insult to injury, the "pre-adult" man can be bestubbled and clutching a bottle of India pale ale, but Maxim culture dictates that the gal must be buffed, shined and "ellipticaled" to the hilt.
Way to a Man's Heart May Not Be Through an Essay
