How to Use hilt in a Sentence

hilt

noun

• Some cases resonate to the hilt, like that of a middle-aged man who was blind.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 25 Feb. 2024
• Other filmmakers might have seen an opportunity to exploit the film’s true crime bona fides to the hilt by making another figure in the story the protagonist.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2024
• 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
• The ring announcer played his hype-man role to the hilt.
  — Victor Mather Todd Heisler, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Lourd's also got her eyes on the Mark Hamill signed lightsaber hilt.
  — Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
• 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 | [e-mail], al, 23 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024