(n.) A handle; especially, the handle of a sword, dagger, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) The claw of a hammer was placed beneath the hilt of the knife for additional leverage, and the weapon was thereupon successfully removed.
(2) The magnificent bronze Beaune Dirk is a princely dagger, but could not have been intended for practical use: the blade was never sharpened, nor the end drilled to attach a wooden hilt.
(3) Analyse what we do best and invest in our talents to the hilt.
(4) This man’s “private life” is subsidised to the hilt by the taxpayer, and that is what really sticks in the craw.
(5) Since launching the war on terror, the US and its allies have attacked and occupied Afghanistan and Iraq; bombed Libya; killed thousands in drone attacks in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia; imposed devastating sanctions; backed Israel's occupation and dispossession of the Palestinians to the hilt; carried out large-scale torture, kidnapping and internment without trial; maintained multiple bases to protect client dictatorships throughout the region; and now threaten Iran with another act of illegal war.
(6) But instead the US, Britain and other European powers finance, arm and back to the hilt Israel's occupation, including the siege of Gaza – precisely to prevent Palestinians obtaining the arms that would allow them to protect themselves against Israeli military might.
(7) There are some that are mortgaged up to the hilt, and that’s dangerous stuff.
(8) Canada does not mind other jurisdictions taxing their banks to the hilt, but it has no desire to impose a levy on its own banks, which after all, did not need bailing out.
(9) But Thatcher would have backed Hammond to the hilt.
(10) "And all of them, every single one of them, are prepared to go to the hilt in order to isolate Russia with respect to this invasion," Kerry said.
(11) In stark contrast to her approach to domestic affairs, Thatcher scrupulously deferred to her military commanders and supported their decisions to the hilt.
(12) Employment law has become ridiculously opaque and employers take full advantage of that and arrive lawyered up to the hilt.
(13) That makes it an enticing prospect for Glazer-style financing - mortgage a rock-solid asset up to the hilt in order to crank up the potential returns.
(14) He pledged anew that Nato partners including those that border Ukraine or Russia would be defended to the hilt if their sovereignty is threatened.
(15) Yet one in six households are currently mortgaged to the hilt, servicing home loans that are at least four times the size of their annual salary, in further evidence of the intense vulnerability of many homeowners to rate hikes.
(16) The latter was praised to the hilt for display against Uruguay, with his Colombia coach, José Pékerman, saying Rodríguez has “every attribute of a top-notch player at a world level” and that he “never had any doubts that this was going to be his World Cup”.
(17) Three guilty of Hatton Garden heist as Kenneth Noye link revealed Read more The other, Brian Reader, aimed a kick at the man: John Fordham, a specialist police surveillance officer, who had been stabbed five times in the front and five times in the back, with such force that a knife was plunged into his body up to its hilt.
(18) Bayern Munich 3-0 Barcelona (Robben 73) I've defended those blokes with the wands behind the goal to the hilt, but I'm not going to attempt it here.
(19) We have to fight for every penny we get, but then we spend it to the hilt on the pupils.
(20) He added that G8 nations and some other countries are “prepared to go to the hilt to isolate Russia” with a “broad array of options” available.
Jilt
Definition:
(n.) A woman who capriciously deceives her lover; a coquette; a flirt.
(v. t.) To cast off capriciously or unfeeling, as a lover; to deceive in love.
(v. i.) To play the jilt; to practice deception in love; to discard lovers capriciously.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are now entire porn sites devoted to the "amateur" naked selfie and concerns have recently been raised that jilted lovers can seek their revenge by making explicit images of their ex publicly available online.
(2) Jilted Generation: How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth is a tirade of fury by two twentysomething journalists accusing baby boomers of selfish individualism.
(3) I became interested in marriage break up – the causes, signs and symptoms – and soon became fluent in separation jargon (the split, the broken home, marriage difficulties, the trial separation, the walk-out, the divorce, problems at home, the affair, problems in the bedroom department, the Dear John, the jilting).
(4) The Wedding Singer, in which he was a jilted groom performing 1980s pop hits and falling for Drew Barrymore, raked in $123m worldwide in 1998 and made a convincing case for him as a rom-com lead.
(5) The best was Jilted Generation by Ed Howker and Shiv Malik.
(6) She warns that our book, Jilted Generation: How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth , rallies "resentment against the sick and the elderly" and lines up pensions and the NHS for the chop.
(7) Jilted at the altar, First Choice went on to merge with the travel operations of Germany's Tui AG, creating London-listed Tui Travel.
(8) It portrays a driven and somewhat ruthless executive whose masterwork is a response to being jilted by his girlfriend and who is prepared to drop his closest friend, Eduardo Saverin, as he gets ahead.
(9) The problems of unstable and expensive housing, of poorly paid, temporary or for that matter non-existent jobs, and the irresponsible way in which Britain's public finances have been managed, are not illusory but affect the jilted generation most severely.
(10) The mass jilting of Labour by millions of voters was relatively recent, and limiting exile from power to one term is pretty rare in British politics.
(11) Rational self-counseling and psychotherapy can be effective in helping a jilted person work through periods of distress and may help to reestablish emotional well being and good mental health.
(12) Yet a jilted mistress or unpaid gangster would surely have just shot or stabbed him.
(13) Geraldine Bedell, editor of Gransnet, and Ed Howker, co-author of Jilted Generation: How Britain has Bankrupted its Youth, discuss whether a generational war really has broken out.
(14) Generation Rent have good reasons to feel like the jilted generation.
(15) Pass the hankies because that almost makes grown men weep, or holler for former favourites to be jilted.
(16) A cold-hearted miser bullied by ghosts into gaining a conscience has triumphed over a festering, jilted bride and an alcoholic, nihilistic barrister – not to mention the odd pickpocket and escaped convict – to be named the most popular Charles Dickens character.
(17) But the protest was a response to pent up anger of young people who feel they are being jilted at every turn.
(18) They are, as Guardian journalist Shiv Malik wrote, the Jilted Generation , who are set to be the first generation to do worse than its parents as far back as data goes.
(19) Yanukovych's decision sparked the biggest protests in Ukraine for almost a decade and sent relations between Europe and Russia into deep chill, as Brussels sees the Kremlin as bullying Yanukovych into jilting Europe in favour of joining a Moscow-led customs union.
(20) In 2014, Victoria became the first and only state to criminalise revenge porn, so called because of the prevalence of websites which made it easy for jilted lovers to post pictures or videos publicly that were intended for private use.