The phrase "and tilted back" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the position of an object or a person's head, typically indicating that it is leaning or reclined backward.
Example: "She sat in the chair with her head resting against the backrest, her eyes closed and tilted back."
Alternatives: "and reclined" or "and leaned back".
Quite often I'm… "Gardening!" the girl said, and tilted back in her chair the way she knew would get a reaction.
His right eye was almost swollen shut as he sat down and tilted back his head to receive more eye solution from the trainer Ron Culp.
The New Yorker, November 13 , 2006P. 84 "Gardening!" the girl said, and tilted back in her chair the way she knew would get a reaction.
For Islamic veils, mandatory by law at all times in public, they wore silk squares of lime green, shocking pink or electric blue, tied under the chin like a Fifties housewife, and tilted back at an angle.
As the parade of birds and machines coasted over the chapel and the three large wooden crosses driven into the ground beside it, people raised their binoculars and cameras to their faces and tilted back their heads.
By Helen Simpson The New Yorker, November 13 , 2006P. 84 "Gardening!" the girl said, and tilted back in her chair the way she knew would get a reaction.
SCANNING: The system continuously scans by panning and tilting back and forth until faces are detected.
They are sitting in old-fashioned wooden office chairs, the kind that swivel and tilt back on springs.
She would look up, turn the knob to stop the gas, pull down the breathing mask and tilt back her visor, showing her freckled face.
I would ask a question; he would smile and tilt back in his chair and look upward, as if searching the ceiling for small imperfections, and say, "Let me see if I can answer that by rephrasing something I said in my book" — "Inside Terrorism" (1998) — "or my testimony" (he testified before a House subcommittee in late September).
