How to Use to the hilt in a Sentence

to the hilt

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• The league has pushed the notion of competitive balance to the hilt in the last few years.
  — David Aldridge, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
• But Morrison kept going, despite being leveraged to the hilt.
  — Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
• The contractors, according to the grand jury, exploited this agreement to the hilt.
  — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
• The huge Filipino diaspora, concentrated just a few minutes away by train in Woodside, Queens, backed its woman to the hilt.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
• The Liberian-style jollof rice was seasoned to the hilt, so the fresh Abidjan salad, with tomatoes, cucumbers, red onions, and avocado in a creamy yogurt sauce, proved an ideal counterbalance.
  — John Kessler, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026