stilt
Example Sentences
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It’s shifted over the years — there were stilt walkers for a bit, and Sawdust’s historical site notes there was once a mascot in “Jelf,” part jester, part elf.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025
Encircling the footprint of each roundhouse were "middens," haloes of rubbish dumped from the stilt village above, included broken pots, butchered animal bone, and "coprolites" or fossilised faeces.
From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024
That one would feature more than 75 stilt walkers, many wearing folkloric costumes, and Potí is its artistic director.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2024
I mean, literally physically starving a lot of the time, and he learned to be a carnival barker, a stilt walker.
From Salon • Dec. 19, 2023
“Stay stilt grunted the dwarf, grabbing hold of Harry’s bag and pulling him back. “Let me go!”
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
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