stilt
Example Sentences
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"Unless we put our house on stilts, I'd be terrified every time it rained."
From BBC
Suited up in black spandex and gloves with bits of fur, Henry wore arm extenders and stilts, depending on whether Cokey was on four legs or two, that enabled him to move like a quadruped.
From New York Times
He gently chides a “dead cat” crevice between homes that would be “impossible to clean” and a balcony on spindly stilts that has “the smooth surfaces and floating quality of a hydraulic car lift.”
From New York Times
With military efficiency, the team—two dozen grad students, ecologists, and veterinarians—set up a lab on the ground floor of an abandoned traditional Thai house on stilts.
From Science Magazine
Drummer boys, Spanish infantas and stilt walkers all march inexorably onward like a feverish apparition.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
