How to use "stilted" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "stilted" in popular movie and book plots

  • They spend an awkward night together, with a stilted goodbye the next morning.  - Big Stone Gap (film)
  • The stilted conversation remains until the arrival of Walker, with his girlfriend Shirley, which immediately throws Mainwaring off kilter.  - The King was in his Counting House
  • McNulty’s political disaffection makes for stilted conversation.  - Slapstick (The Wire)
  • Conversation between Tom and Julie is stilted and awkward, while Scott slips up and reveals that Tom still lives with his mother.  - The Pallbearer
  • En route, the two engage in stilted conversation until Dummar cajoles his passenger into joining him in singing a Christmas song he wrote.  - Melvin and Howard
  • Conversation is stilted and eventually grinds to a halt.  - Hay Fever (play)

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