Example sentences for: stilts

How can you use “stilts” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Their sea-resistant limestone foundations stand on massive pinewood stilts driven 8 m (26 ft) into the lagoon bed.

  • Moonwalk, air slide, clowns on stilts, and face painting.

  • Many of the inhabitants live — by choice, not necessarily through economic hardship — on the water, aboard houseboats or in houses on stilts in the main creek.

  • An ambitious plan for a hexagonally based church, raised above the ground on stilts and with stained-glass windows by Pollock, came to nothing.

  • Even if you feel you’ve seen enough Japanese temples, you will certainly be moved by the striking beauty of the bright red camphorwood arch of Itsukushima Shrine rising 16 m (52 ft) out of the sea in front of the low, brilliant vermilion buildings, themselves raised above the water by stilts.


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