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Example sentences for "lilted"

Lexicographically close words:
liliputian; lill; lillies; lilo; lilt; lilting; lily; lilye; limas; limb
  1. And she lilted tae, and we baith sang it thegither till we met, and then we gaed ben thegither and gaed na mair oot till the mirk was by.

  2. My heart lilted as I crossed the heath to where the others were waiting for me beyond the dip of the hillock.

  3. I tried to understand, but it was hard to get at anything with fever raging in one's brain, while the rhythmic roll of the elephant's pace as we lilted away over half Wales seemed to blend with the fall of those waves from very far away.

  4. As I came up to the guardroom, however, I heard a song being lilted out by a tenor voice into the hot dusty air.

  5. Madelon lilted with her eyes upon the moving throng, gay as a garden in a wind; and suddenly her heart stood still, although she lilted on.

  6. She turned on herself as well as on her recreant lover with rage and disdain--and all the time she lilted without one break.

  7. She thought that Burr was there, and she lilted more loudly the Virginia reel.

  8. He sat up with alert ears, and lilted suspiciously to a distance.

  9. As she lilted within a yard of him, he sprang and struck.

  10. A kestrel patrolled the fields for breakfast, and a hare lilted back to her form.


  11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lilted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.