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How to use tilt in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun

Tilt means to slope or incline (something); to slant. Example: “Tilt the barrel to pour out its contents.”

Examples of tilt by meaning

verbTo slope or incline (something); to slant.

  • Tilt the barrel to pour out its contents.

verbTo be at an angle.

  • “Marge Gets A Job” opens with the foundation of the Simpson house tilting perilously to one side, making the family homestead look like the suburban equivalent of the Leaning Tower Of Pisa.2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in...

verbTo charge (at someone) with a lance.

  • Smith strongly tilts at Mr.1944 May and June, “Notes and News: Moniaive Branch Locomotive Power”, in Railway Magazine, page 182
  • At Offham, in Kent, tilting at the quintain provides a climax to the day's revels.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 263

verbTo forge (something) with a tilt hammer.

  • to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile

verbTo enter a state of frustration and worsened performance resulting from a series of losses.

  • Even the best players can tilt which can cause their performance to drop significantly.2022 September 2, Gökhan Çakır, Harrison Thomas, “How to get better at VALORANT”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2023
  • This was yet another surprising momentum swing, with Nepomniachtchi seemingly having addressed his tendency to tilt after a loss, and with Ding crashing back down to Earth after having squared the ledger in the previous game.2023 April 19, Ben Tippett, “Haymakers Are Flying At The World Chess Championship”, in Defector, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2023

verbTo modify one's approach.

  • While self-checkout machines are often used alongside cashiers, labor unions say that tilting toward fully cashierless operations threatens the French way of life by encouraging American-style consumerism and automation, putting thousands of jobs at risk.2019 December 26, Liz Alderman, “Self-Checkout in France Sets Off Battle Over a Day of Rest”, in The New York Times

nounA jousting contest. (countable).

  • Justs and tilts were held here weekly, while the great tourneys that occurred less often were given upon a field outside the castle wall upon the floor of the valley.1928, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 11, in Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, page 139

nounAn attempt, run, or bid for something; commonly with a sense of bold defiance or against steep odds.

  • He made a tilt at public office
  • The newspaper offices would only take a limited number of returns; and I took ‘the knock,’ which was a little hard, considering it was my first serious tilt at the world.1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 6
  • City will now make the Premier League an even bigger priority, while regrouping and planning again for what they hope will be another tilt at the Champions League next season.2011 December 7, Phil McNulty, “Man City 2 - 0 Bayern Munich”, in BBC Sport

More sentences with tilt

  • Get those forks tilted back more or you're gonna lose that pallet!From the entry fork
  • The bridge column magnified the trouble with a slight tilt in the wrong direction.From the entry trouble
  • Don't go racing around corners at full tilt or you'll hit someone.From the entry at full tilt
  • She can type 65 words per minute, and sometimes as much as 80, if she's going at it full tilt.From the entry full tilt
  • A centerhung sash window rotates horizontally on hinge pins at its center. When open, the top part tilts into the room and to bottom part tilts outside.From the entry centerhung
  • This pattern of children turning towards the mother after a divorce is known as the matrifocal tilt.2025 September 12, Molly Gorman, “'Was it all smoke and mirrors?': How adult children are affected by grey divorce”, in BBC. From the entry matrifocal
  • Some have said that "it is over" for people who have negative canthal tilts.2023 August 5, Mary Connelly, “What is a canthal tilt?”, in The US Sun, archived from the original on 13 Aug 2023. From the entry canthal tilt
  • But as it turned out, our full-scale enmeshment with the internet has tilted much more personal.2022 April 14, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity…. From the entry enmeshment
  • Decades of road-centric planning and policies have tilted the playing field strongly against public transport use.2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 34. From the entry -centric
  • He then cut a rift into Isterr, and—” The griffin's head tilted down.2020 September 17, Debi Ennis Binder, Summerbird Rises, Debi Ennis Binder, page 41. From the entry dehance
  • As he pulled out, she tilted her pelvis for his next thrust.2017 December 1, Lexi Post, Temptations of Christmas Future, Lexi Post, →ISBN. From the entry hilt
  • The girl caught her accent, the sibilant sing-song of the south, and smiled, tilting her head questioningly.2017, Adam Brookes, The Spy's Daughter, Redhook, →ISBN. From the entry bolt
  • The Michigan football team’s annual tilt with in-state rival Michigan State will be a 7:30 p.m.2017 September 26, Rachel Lenzi, “Michigan-Michigan State”, in The Diehards Network, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2017. From the entry in-state
  • She fished in her carisack for drops, then tilted her head back to administer them.2017, Maggie Lynch, Eternity: Virus Wars. From the entry carisack
  • He was my grampers, and I say who pays.' She tilted her head back a fraction.2016 May 5, Andrew Prentice, Jonathan Weil, Black Arts, David Fickling Books, →ISBN. From the entry grampers
  • “And maybe some of that double-sided tape celebrities use.” She tilted her head in a half shrug.2016, Stephanie Scott, Alterations, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry thanksies
  • I love the way everyone tilts their heads as they scan the shelves.2015, Eric Idle, The Writer's Cut. From the entry tilter
  • We classify all tilting sheaves which have a non-coherent torsion subsheaf.2015, Lidia Angeleri Hügel, Dirk Kussin, “Large tilting sheaves over weighted noncommutative regular projective curves”, in arXiv. From the entry subsheaf
  • By using local bottomgates, a p-n interface tilted with respect to the current direction can be formed.2015, Peter Rickhaus, Péter Makk, Ming-Hao Liu, Klaus Richter, Christian Schönenberger, “Gate tuneable beamsplitter in ballistic…. From the entry bottomgates
  • Here was a sober young Harlemite in a gamely tilted bowler with a little French mustache.2011, Amor Towles, Rules of Civility. From the entry gamely
  • He tilts his bowler hat and steps back to view his efforts.2010 December 15, Peter Everett, Matisse's War, Random House, →ISBN. From the entry Sunday
  • This canthal tilt is considered aesthetically pleasing and contributing to a perception of alertness.2010, Basil M Hantash, Hayes B Gladstone, “An algorithm and review of blepharoplasty and canthopexy”, in Expert Review of Dermatology…. From the entry canthal tilt
  • She said comedy was “the victorious tilting of uncontrol against control.”2007 May 22, Douglas Martin, “Dame Mary Douglas, 86, a Wide-Ranging Anthropologist, Is Dead”, in New York Times. From the entry uncontrol
  • The edge of the field was slightly banked which tilted the pram at an angle.2006, Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale. From the entry pram
  • I pushed my index finger against my chin and tilted my head to the side.2006, Natsuo Kirino [pseudonym; Mariko Hashioka], translated by Rebecca Copeland., “Jizō of Desire: Kazue’s Journals”, in Grotesque, New…. From the entry young ladylike
  • Unabashed, the Killock tilted his head to one side in mock examination, puckering his bulbous nose.2005, Bill Hawkins, The Other Cockleshell Heroes, page 32. From the entry killock
  • (vii) The manifer (reinforcing bridle gauntlet for the tilt) was examined in cross-section.2003, Alan R. Williams, The Knight and the Blast Furnace: A History of the Metallurgy of Armour in the Middle Ages & the Early Modern…. From the entry manifer
  • Maybe the Powers in general?" She shrugged and tilted her bottle up, nearly finishing the liquid.2001, Yvonne Navarro, Tempted Champions - Page 110. From the entry killworthy

Meaning of tilt

  1. verb To slope or incline (something); to slant.
  2. verb To be at an angle.
  3. verb To charge (at someone) with a lance.

Full definition of tilt

Questions about tilt in a sentence

How do you use tilt in a sentence?
Tilt is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Tilt the barrel to pour out its contents.”
What is a short sentence with tilt?
“Smith strongly tilts at Mr.”
What does tilt mean?
Tilt means to slope or incline (something); to slant.

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