Example sentences for: tilted

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

  • The effect is that of a hushed chapel, and on the altar is this gorgeous riddle of a painting, with its tilted plate of ripe pears, its pendulous eggplants, its great blue-black bedspread draped across the lower half of the painting, and its round, wicker-wound ginger jar, carefully placed in the middle.

  • Council aides said yesterday that they did not have a head count for the cuts at the Law Department, but that the City Council plan is tilted towards the elimination of legal positions, which at 10 percent would require the layoff of more than 65 lawyers.

  • Sometimes authors create words, maybe accidentally; twice in one book seems deliberate: “searched—across the rooves of New York” and “red tilted rooves of a town.”

  • A story praises the Miss America pageant for having "tilted the tiara from left to right."

  • The weight of pundit opinion may have tilted ever so slightly toward the "criticize" part of this elegant formula.


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