How to Use tilt at in a Sentence

tilt at

verb
  • Don Quixote, tilting at windmills.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The light’s head can also tilt at a few different angles.
    — Erin Mayer, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The Anteaters had alumni cheering them on during the title tilt at Pauley Pavilion.
    — Jordan Puente, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • Her head bobs gently, then sharply tilts at specific moments, particularly when certain words cut through the stream of conversation.
    — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026
  • He was stymied, both as parent and professional, by a desperate need for adulation that sent him tilting at windmills when confronted with even a whiff of criticism.
    — Debra Kamin, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The pop star has gone to 23 Chiefs games, including 17 tilts at Arrowhead and two Super Bowls.
    — Chandler Boese, Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Can Pete Townshend still athletically tilt at windmills at 80?
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Sep. 2025
  • After winning the league last term and spending big in the summer, Conte must now deliver a proper tilt at the Champions League and qualification should be well within Napoli’s reach.
    — Dan Cancian, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The Broncos entered the tilt at ExtraMile Arena in second place in the standings, trailing only the visiting Aztecs, who had lost just one game in conference play all season.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Whereas some longstanding members of the profession are resistant to AI and insist that AI must be kept out of the loop, these eye-opening grads realize that there is little sense in tilting at windmills.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Atlanta, which hasn’t clinched a postseason spot since the 2017 season, hosts the Titans on Friday night in a preseason tilt at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
    — Hailey Hurst, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The orbit of this potential exomoon is tilted at around 60 degrees relative to the orbital plane of its parent planet, potentially indicating some type of interaction has disturbed this system at some point in its history.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Suddenly, the 107 points and the 113 goals garnered over the first 45 league games of a quite remarkable season were going to count for nothing, save for a tilt at the same play-offs that had proved to be the graveyard of their promotion hopes in the semi-finals a year ago.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
  • By Monday, with Paramount’s David Ellison tilting at windmills to try to stop Ted Sarandos’ Netflixian invasion, the studio executive hummed a different tune.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Parsons was asked on Tuesday, ahead of Thursday night’s Packers-Commanders tilt at Lambeau Field, about picking your spots when rushing against Daniels, given his ability to make an overzealous rush plan backfire by escaping the pocket.
    — Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Dembele was then able to play just over 1,000 Ligue 1 minutes to conserve his legs for PSG’s successful defence of their Champions League title, and France’s tilt at the World Cup.
    — Liam Twomey, New York Times, 3 June 2026
  • The Case For Planet Y Simulations show that a world with a mass between Mercury and Earth, orbiting between 100 and 200 AU from the sun and tilted at least 10 degrees, could nudge the Kuiper Belt's plane into a tilt.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Lidl-Trek’s Ayuso is another potential winner, riding as a team leader for the Tour at the first time, while Movistar’s leader Cian Uijtdebroeks and Netcompany-INEOS’ Frenchman Kevin Vauquelin may also take a tilt at white.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • Clemson, led by veteran head coach Dabo Swinney, was the school that beat SMU during the 2024 ACC Championship, 34-31, though Lashlee’s group was the favorite in the tilt at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.
    — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 17 Aug. 2025

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