Sentence examples for tilt at from inspiring English sources

No windmills to tilt at among the derricks.

"He would tilt at every fucking windmill," Lynn says.

"I tilt at windmills," she said, describing her current occupations.

They looked like mirages for a modern-day Don Quixote to tilt at.

Yorkshire have six important weeks to come as they tilt at trophies.

Readers ask why I tilt at windmills like malaria, sex trafficking or maternal mortality.

The reference was to Pfizer's failed tilt at AstaZeneca in 2014.

"The nice thing about being seventy," he said, "is that you can tilt at windmills".

Behind a scrim 10 ghostly white figures in profile levitate or tilt at impossible angles.

"There's nothing in his past biography that indicates he would tilt at windmills".

A moment later he looked down with a quizzical head tilt at another call coming in.