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Example sentences for "tilting"

Lexicographically close words:
tillon; tills; tilt; tilted; tilth; tilts; tima; timaguas; timbale; timbales
  1. Cross-section, showing crevices, soil runs and tilting of rocks] In planting also, follow the same rules.

  2. This tilting may be accomplished with small stone wedges.

  3. The robin kept singing and twittering away and tilting his head on one side, as if he were as excited as she was.

  4. Then he took a lighter tone, tilting his chin contemptuously.

  5. For five minutes; yes, I remember," said Olwen, tilting her chin.

  6. We're always getting chances like that," said my uncle, cocking his cigar offensively, wiping his glasses and tilting his chair back.

  7. And in the middle was the brown coffin end, tilting on men's shoulders and half occluded by the vicar's Oxford hood.

  8. We are not told where the tilting actually took place, nor who won the prize, though we may feel pretty sure that it was arranged that the king should be the victor.

  9. When he got tired of balls, he arranged a band of nobles for the old sport of Tilting at the Ring.

  10. The oxen seemed always to be expecting the sting of the bull whip; they stared at me timidly, tilting their ears every moment, as if to empty them of a heavy load; while the horses snorted with apprehension.

  11. He looked at it silently, tilting his head.

  12. Our little house stood tilting forward about half-way down the hill, its runners buried in the snow.

  13. Smile for David," he coaxed, tilting her chin with a forefinger.

  14. Winfield Bybee boomed out a greeting to Sally, tilting his head to peer into her smiling blue eyes.

  15. The bottle was emptying perceptibly and rising still higher and his head tilting yet further back.

  16. Sir James was at that moment examining the great tilting helm, and Lord George watched him, smiling amusedly.

  17. The huge cylindrical tilting helm was so constructed in front as to slope at an angle in all directions to one point.

  18. My name isn't Silver Heels," she observed, still coolly tilting back and forth on heels and toes.

  19. Tilting at the quintain was a favourite sport at festive gatherings.

  20. Then his free palm was cupped under her chin, tilting it carefully.

  21. Now--" She leaned back comfortably, tilting the chair and clasping her hands around one knee.

  22. Tilting her head to the side, she studied the shimmering featherweight cat's cradle of jewel-green ribbons that hung there.

  23. The above illustration shows method of loading kiln cars with veneer on its edges by the use of the Tilting Platform.

  24. In Figure 49 will be seen a method of loading kiln cars with veneer on edge by the use of a tilting platform.

  25. Would you elaborate somewhat, Doctor Humes, on why the angle would change by virtue of a tilting of the head of the President since the basis of the computation of angle is with respect to the ground?

  26. Stated more simply, why would the tilting of the President's head affect the angle of the decline?

  27. Miss Darcey tried again, with the same gesture as of putting the crowning touch, tilting her head and smiling radiantly at Bowers, as if to say, "It is for you I do all this!

  28. It ran perhaps for five hundred feet, and then, with a tilting of the wings, to set the air currents against them, it sprang into the air.

  29. But only in principle," she murmured, tilting a radiant challenge at him.

  30. This Saw is provided with a polished Tilting Table, heavily nickel-plated.

  31. There is a donkey-load of it here," said Giovanni, tilting with his foot a stone in the floor.

  32. And tilting his hat on to the back of his head, he looked at the ceiling, as if in the hope of seeing James up there.

  33. Now, on a sudden, here I was, tilting against the laws both of God and man.

  34. The riders sat erect and statuesque, pikes in air, cloaks flapping from their shoulders, waiting the call that sent each in turn tilting against the glittering and elusively breeze-swinging silver circlet.

  35. A robin was tilting on the rim of the fountain and it looked at them with head turned sidewise, with a low sweet pip that mingled with the trickling laugh of the falling water.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tilting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    beveled; bias; biased; canting; checkers; chess; game; inclination; inclined; inclining; leaning; listing; oblique; pitched; pitching; recumbent; sidelong; slant; slanted; slanting; sloping; sport; tilt; tilting; tipped; tipping; tipsy