stilt

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Recent Examples of stilt Elsa Lanchester earned her place in film history with no dialogue and only three minutes of screen time as the beast's eponymous Bride, a performance that was influenced by Lanchester's negative observations of swans and made all the more bizarre by her stiff hairdo and foot-and-a-half tall stilts. Katie Rife, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024 While no single approach is perfect—solutions range from floating houses to homes built on stilts—Kumar believes working closely with local communities, to leverage their traditional knowledge while improving the sustainability of materials, is key for boosting resilience. Natalie Donback, TIME, 17 Feb. 2025 One of the 10 cabanas on stilts by the 12,900-square-foot private pier, which have hammocks that drape out over the water and direct access to the sea. Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2025 On the one hand are people – or private equity firms – with the cash to pay for hugely expensive home upgrades, such as rebuilding on stilts, or who can afford to self-insure and repair their properties. Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stilt
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Noun
  • This elevated laptop stand will be a welcome addition to your mother’s home office.
    Sarah Madaus, Architectural Digest, 17 Apr. 2025
  • In another act of coopetition, Audsley saw staff from one company aiding another to set up their stand the night before.
    Lilian Raji, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Altogether, these trusses weigh about 22,000 tons, equivalent to three Eiffel Towers.
    Hassan Tayir, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Bright blue and yellow, the school colors, appear throughout the building, including on the top-floor structural trusses.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Which song from the catalog will Barry Keoghan strut naked to through a mansion?
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 2 Apr. 2025
  • In a 2008 Ebony profile, Banks posed with Iman, Alek Wek and Kimora Lee Simmons—women who were all toggling between fabulous modeling careers, as the faces of high fashion, and new options, in case the world of struts ever turned a cold shoulder.
    Essence, Essence, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Boxer Punch on Every Curve | The all-new BMW R 1300 R To that end, it's got sporty streetfighter ergonomics, with the rider leaning forward a fair bit to reach the flat handlebar and slightly rear-set foot pegs.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The World Bank’s 2024 Global Investment Framework for Nutrition pegs the shortfall at $128 billion over the next decade, or roughly $13 billion annually, to scale up nutrition interventions.
    Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025

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