stilts
- plural of stilt.
Example Sentences
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While Major League Baseball has been sweating over pitch clocks, ghost runners and the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System, the Savannah Bananas have been juggling, dancing, cartwheeling along the baselines and running to first on stilts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Over half of it will be elevated -- a major concern for Alexandrians who fear the tree-lined track will be replaced by eyesore concrete stilts.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
My family lived in a Midcentury-Modern home with a front balcony on stilts and a large backyard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
The Mother Ginger sequence, which usually finds young dancers emerging from the giant skirt of a dancer on stilts, is completely reimagined here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025
Razi looked at the sea, and the stilts in the water.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
