Example Sentences

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It’s a lot of people talking at each other stiltedly, not with each other.

From Slate • Oct. 16, 2014

“Well,” Roy said stiltedly, “she wanted it that way; she believed she’d be safer as a public figure.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

She wrote very stiltedly; she said she was sorry to hear that Jimmy was not well, but no doubt he was all right again by this time.

From The Second Honeymoon by Ayres, Ruby M. (Ruby Mildred)

For she read very stiltedly, with a strange exotic accent for the love passages or the death scenes.

From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir

He was quite polite, however, though a little stiltedly so, as if not to the manner born.

From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by Campbell, John