How to Use hilt in a Sentence

hilt

noun
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  • The seller does, and he’s pressured to pay to the hilt.
    — Michael Toth, WSJ, 8 July 2021
  • Cook said the weapon had an 18-inch blade and a sword-like hilt.
    — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 7 July 2017
  • And so Pervis’s DNA is on the hilt of the knife and not on the handle.
    — Tasha Lemley, Scientific American, 4 Feb. 2022
  • That’s so admirable of Prescott, a team leader to the hilt.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2017
  • Co-star Paul Freeman adds that Allen played her to the hilt.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 June 2021
  • At the time the sword was used, the mark would have been covered by a hilt made of wood, bone, or antler.
    — National Geographic, 22 June 2017
  • That is why the U.K. is committed to backing Ukraine to the hilt.
    — Rishi Sunak, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2022
  • One person made the hilt, one the scabbard, one the handle, and so forth.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Only the nails that once secured the inlays to the hilt can still be seen.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2017
  • And Meat played the tragicomic biker’s love song to the hilt.
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 21 Jan. 2022
  • This dude’s got a scroll or a hilt with a tower-slash-city detail at the top.
    — Vulture, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Well, one, Israel has a right to defend itself to the hilt.
    — CBS News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • It was sandbagged to the hilt, and soldiers could be seen outside it.
    — James Verini, New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • The funniest dude in the crew and stoked to the hilt with stamina and ambition.
    — New York Times, 23 Sep. 2021
  • For millennia, the metal has adorned crowns and hilts of swords.
    — Puja Bhattacharjee, CNN, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Emily’s curls are hair-sprayed to the hilt to watch Alfie and Gabriel play soccer.
    — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2021
  • This was bolstered by the fact that the team found the gemstones in the gold hilt had been attached with lime plaster.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Ducks and geese are armed to the hilt with three different kinds of feathers to keep them warm and dry and ready to fly.
    — Cori Brown, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Americans, already armed to the hilt, rushed to buy more guns.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Last year, more than 3,000 homes were decorated to the hilt to take the places of parade floats.
    — CNN, 11 Jan. 2022
  • But then the attack came roaring back; throughout the night, Ball’s team would battle it to the hilt.
    — Benjamin Wofford, Vox, 25 Oct. 2018
  • Sort of like mortaging your house to the hilt, then using it to throw a lavish party.
    — Larry Light, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2019
  • After dark, the sidewalks were thick with clubgoers dressed to the hilt.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 12 Nov. 2019
  • At Adjaye Associates, the founder has played his guru role to the hilt.
    — David Adjaye, Curbed, 6 July 2023
  • The last half near the hilt is squared off at 90 degrees and is perfect for striking a ferro rod.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Bones quickly set the tone for the interview, praising Hicks to the hilt and plugging his new song.
    — Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Ferrari has played the dual-purpose aspect to the hilt.
    — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 2 July 2020
  • Among the items Katzin found was a sword with a 3.3-foot-long blade and a hilt measuring over 11 inches long, per the release.
    — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Or you get laid off and have already leveraged everything to the hilt.
    — Nerd Wallet, oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The play lurches between sadness and joy, near-defeat and, in the end, a juicy triumph that Parson plays to the hilt.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2022

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