How to Use kilter in a Sentence

kilter

noun

• No one should enter a house that looks cracked or off-kilter before a structural assessment.
  — Aaron Steckelberg, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2017
• For the most part, the neural network excelled at its task, generating names that are cute, a little off-kilter, and oh-so-fun to say.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 20 June 2017
• When his writing is at its best, his characters act as a fisheye lens through which to scrutinize a slightly off-kilter world that surrounds them.
  — The Editors, The Atlantic, 17 June 2017
• The brain also runs checks on itself to ensure that the exquisite balance of hormones, enzymes and proteins isn’t too far off-kilter.
  — John E. McIntyre, baltimoresun.com, 8 Aug. 2017
• Erratic seasoning threw a few other dishes off-kilter, in particular beef shank roulade.
  — Providence Cicero, The Seattle Times, 20 July 2017
• If your attempts to keep your head and heart in check are proving to be ineffective, ask your physician if MS could be throwing you off-kilter.
  — Stella Katsipoutis, Fox News, 29 June 2017
• The third movement is what draws me back to the symphony repeatedly, with an off-kilter waltz rhythm in which the mask of social respectability keeps falling off.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 22 June 2017
• The off-kilter, salon-style arrangement mixes contemporary pieces with paintings the artist made in the 1990s.
  — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 2 Sep. 2017
• Pharrell & Chad Hugo of the Neptunes made their name from Pharrell's off-kilter falsetto and genre-bending blend of hip-hop, rock, pop and funk.
  — AL.com, 10 July 2017
• For whatever reason, the junior who will make the 51st and possibly last start of his Tigers' career, has been off-kilter lately in the first inning.
  — Ron Higgins, NOLA.com, 23 June 2017
• Now there is also the indie-rock club Ottobar and the Windup Space, which reinvents itself daily: as a music venue, an art gallery, a showcase for off-kilter stand-up.
  — David Amsden, Smithsonian, 31 July 2017
• Arctic and in the process, turn the Jet Stream and the Gulf Stream off kilter.
  — Next Avenue, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
• Still – but with the off-kilter quirk of Wire and Devo.
  — Courtney Devores, charlotteobserver, 14 Feb. 2018
• And one of the things that that was aimed at doing was to get Adam Schiff off kilter.
  — NBC News, 14 Nov. 2019
• Still, the sidewalks are off-kilter and the guardrail and the cement are flaking away.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 26 Feb. 2020
• It’s not just dark but a little strange and off-kilter down there.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2021
• The Emily of the title is played by Aubrey Plaza, a droll and off-kilter presence in ...
  — Ross Douthat, National Review, 25 Aug. 2022
• The Echo Loop sounds like an off-kilter, if nifty, idea—like a stealthy 007-type piece of spy equipment.
  — Fortune, 25 Sep. 2019
• These lamps tend to be off-kilter pieces with soft, rounded edges.
  — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 26 Feb. 2020
• The heat and high, thick grass slowed them in Honduras, and the bumpy field and some bumpy fouls knocked them off kilter in Panama City.
  — Brian Straus, SI.com, 10 Oct. 2017
• All of the toys in the collection have a perfectly off-kilter sense of fun.
  — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 10 Sep. 2018
• Men wore soft jackets tied at the waist, with off-kilter hats and easy-fitting trousers.
  — Colleen Barry, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2022
• The Huskies made their first two shots of the afternoon, but things quickly went off kilter from there.
  — Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2023
• Despite an off-kilter start, the Bulls never let the Heat pull ahead by more than a handful of points.
  — Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com, 28 Nov. 2021
• Thrown off kilter by the prospect that Kim might cancel the summit, Trump rebuffed Bolton.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 23 May 2018
• The present is uncomfortable and off-kilter, and the memory—the wild swim—is an idyll.
  — The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
• The film is full of odd, off-kilter laughs and sidewinding scares as a group of humans has to deal with whatever is in the clouds.
  — Kayla Samoy, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2022
• When the balance between the actions of the two is off-kilter, the result is too little (or too much) bone.
  — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
• The action takes place on a luxurious cruise ship and things start going off kilter when a dead body is found floating in the rooftop pool.
  — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2023
• Multiple fence panels are missing, and the ones that were left standing are off kilter.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 9 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024