How do you use Tilting in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Tilting meaning
present participle and gerund of tilt
Using Tilting
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of tilt
- In the example corpus, tilting often appears in combinations such as: tilting the, and tilting, by tilting.
Context around Tilting
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 13 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tilting
- In this selection, "tilting" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, world, slam, spotted, toward, ever and functions stand out and add context to how "tilting" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a world tilting ever further and a world tilting more toward. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tilting" sits close to words such as adorn, adp and affirms, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tilting
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Consumer preferences are evermore tilting toward electric vehicles. (8 words)
The study showed Earth’s axis is tilting by 4.3cm a year. (13 words)
A Jet2 flight spotted 'tilting in the wind' had to be diverted to Birmingham Airport. (15 words)
Kids can also interact with the Bitzee characters by shaking the device, tilting it, or by swiping their finger back and forth on a touch sensitive strip on the toy’s base, which is also used to navigate the toy’s basic menu system. (44 words)
As "Sicario" goes from a tense traffic jam to a night-vision tunnel raid, plot twists reconfigure our understanding of what's going on, tilting the ground under our feet toward Alejandro, the dark soul of personal revenge amid a foreign conflict. (42 words)
Even through the past 10 games, which included an 0-3-2 stretch that looked as if it would cost the Flames any chance of making a playoff push, they were tilting the ice in the right direction. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
For the United States, a world tilting more toward multipolarism is a world tilting ever further away from the unipolar world order the US created and is the sole benefactor of.
However, excessive nudging is generally penalized by the loss of the current player's turn (known as tilting) or ending of the entire game when the nudging is particularly violent (known as slam tilting).
Adjustability comes in the form of seat height, where it can go from 18 to 22 inches off the ground, and tilting about the center.
A Jet2 flight spotted 'tilting in the wind' had to be diverted to Birmingham Airport.
And if you're looking for an indoor camera that can give you a 360-degree panning capabilities (along with tilting functions), the Cam Pan v2 is a great investment.
As "Sicario" goes from a tense traffic jam to a night-vision tunnel raid, plot twists reconfigure our understanding of what's going on, tilting the ground under our feet toward Alejandro, the dark soul of personal revenge amid a foreign conflict.
Brown always was a basketball Don Quixote, searching for giants and dragons and tilting at windmills and power forwards.
Consumer preferences are evermore tilting toward electric vehicles.
Even through the past 10 games, which included an 0-3-2 stretch that looked as if it would cost the Flames any chance of making a playoff push, they were tilting the ice in the right direction.
Far-right partners in her European Conservatives and Reformists group were gaining power and Europe was tilting right more broadly.
If you pan over from Venus to the left, tilting your gaze higher as you do so, you will find Jupiter, in the constellation of Pisces.
Kids can also interact with the Bitzee characters by shaking the device, tilting it, or by swiping their finger back and forth on a touch sensitive strip on the toy’s base, which is also used to navigate the toy’s basic menu system.
Leaders in Harris County have accused Republicans of using the issues as an excuse to take greater control of elections in a place that is increasingly tilting toward Democrats.
The popular steakhouse is on a converted paddle steamer which remains out of action after tilting into the water on December 23 last year.
The right pillow will keep the head from tilting too far back and extending the neck, or pushing it too far forward so you’re craning overnight, either of which puts pressure on the neck.
The study showed Earth’s axis is tilting by 4.3cm a year.
Transitioning into tablet mode feels just as stable and robust as tilting the screen normally, and that’s a good thing, because the hinge is one of the best we’ve seen on a productivity laptop.
When Mike Durrant stands on a cliff edge or climbs a ladder, he is overcome by the spinning and tilting sensations of vertigo.
You’ll only be able to adjust this by tilting rather than anything more complicated but for the price, that’s a reasonable concession to make.
But state-by-state numbers all show the Blue Wall of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan tilting towards Trump, giving him the overall advantage when it comes to winning the White House.
Common combinations with tilting
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- tilting the 19×
- and tilting 8×
- by tilting 7×
- tilting your 5×
- is tilting 5×
- the tilting 5×
- tilting at 4×
- was tilting 4×
- of tilting 4×
- tilting or 3×