How to Use kilter in a Sentence

kilter

noun
  • Well, his swing plane is a few degrees off kilter.
    — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • These lamps tend to be off-kilter pieces with soft, rounded edges.
    — Boone Ashworth, Wired, 26 Feb. 2020
  • But that’s not the only way our galaxy’s disk is off-kilter.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Nov. 2025
  • But its suit vest with an off-kilter closure feels so fresh over those extra-long trousers.
    — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 July 2022
  • Men wore soft jackets tied at the waist, with off-kilter hats and easy-fitting trousers.
    — Colleen Barry, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Off-kilter, eccentric, absurd and quirky are a few words that come to mind.
    — Anna Tingley, Variety, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Lush yet off-kilter, the track unfurls in new and unique directions.
    — Britt Julious, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The ball placement was much better when his footwork was off-kilter.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Still, the sidewalks are off-kilter and the guardrail and the cement are flaking away.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 26 Feb. 2020
  • And one of the things that that was aimed at doing was to get Adam Schiff off kilter.
    — NBC News, 14 Nov. 2019
  • All of the toys in the collection have a perfectly off-kilter sense of fun.
    — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 10 Sep. 2018
  • However, Glenn was just a little off kilter and bailed out of the triple loop.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Despite that off-kilter approach, the episode is likely to be among the series' most viewed.
    — Alejandra Reyes-Velarde, latimes.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Ermolaev knew how to scream, but her off-kilter performance didn’t win her any love from the judges.
    — Matthew Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • Holmes wore the dress slightly off-kilter, revealing a sliver of shoulder and a thin black strap.
    — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Voting for the most off kilter palettes in 2025!
    — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
  • If anything, the revolving door of designers adds to the off-kilter fun.
    — John King, SFChronicle.com, 15 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • And things aren’t so out of kilter other than our actual play, which, by the way, is almost trite to say almost.
    — Dallas News, 4 Nov. 2020
  • When the balance, between the actions of the two is off-kilter, the result is too little (or too much) bone.
    — Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Arctic and in the process, turn the Jet Stream and the Gulf Stream off kilter.
    — Next Avenue, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Could his killer be Laura, the off-kilter woman who went home with him and was later seen covered in blood?
    — New York Times, 19 May 2021
  • This could include numbness or tingling to the tongue, maybe an off-kilter smile or less blinking in one eye than the other.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Now, the off-kilter condo tower is set to start a $100 million repair.
    — Anna Buchmann, SFChronicle.com, 12 Oct. 2020
  • The Great North has a slightly off-kilter but mostly openhearted view of the world.
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2021
  • His genius is in making films that can accommodate their oft-kilter instincts.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
  • And since only the right camera records video — and square video, no less — the vantage point seen in your footage often feels a little off-kilter.
    — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2021

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