How to Use hilt in a Sentence

hilt

noun
  • Fire dances off the hilt of the katana in her hand.
    — Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Cook said the weapon had an 18-inch blade and a sword-like hilt.
    — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 7 July 2017
  • The people who need to play their roles are playing them to the hilt.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
  • This dude’s got a scroll or a hilt with a tower-slash-city detail at the top.
    — Vulture, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Only the nails that once secured the inlays to the hilt can still be seen.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Lourd's also got her eyes on the Mark Hamill signed lightsaber hilt.
    — Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
  • It was sandbagged to the hilt, and soldiers could be seen outside it.
    — James Verini, New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • For millennia, the metal has adorned crowns and hilts of swords.
    — Puja Bhattacharjee, CNN, 13 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Americans, already armed to the hilt, rushed to buy more guns.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Some cases resonate to the hilt, like that of a middle-aged man who was blind.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 25 Feb. 2024
  • One person made the hilt, one the scabbard, one the handle, and so forth.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Or you get laid off and have already leveraged everything to the hilt.
    — Nerd Wallet, oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2022
  • And Meat played the tragicomic biker’s love song to the hilt.
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Sort of like mortaging your house to the hilt, then using it to throw a lavish party.
    — Larry Light, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The hilt of a sword protruded from his back, snug beside a pack as tight as an angry fist.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 18 May 2026
  • After dark, the sidewalks were thick with clubgoers dressed to the hilt.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 12 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • The funniest dude in the crew and stoked to the hilt with stamina and ambition.
    — New York Times, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The evil stepmother and Queen is played to the hilt by Gal Gadot.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • But the sound effects from the hilt and the light effects from the blade are truly impressive.
    — Alexander Cox, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The wounds were likely caused by a knife without a hilt, meaning her killer may have cut his hand while handling the weapon.
    — USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Emily’s curls are hair-sprayed to the hilt to watch Alfie and Gabriel play soccer.
    — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • Unlike in the last downturn, homeowners aren’t mortgaged to the hilt.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • At Adjaye Associates, the founder has played his guru role to the hilt.
    — David Adjaye, Curbed, 6 July 2023
  • Bones quickly set the tone for the interview, praising Hicks to the hilt and plugging his new song.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 23 Feb. 2023
  • And so Pervis’s DNA is on the hilt of the knife and not on the handle.
    — Tasha Lemley, Scientific American, 4 Feb. 2022

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