If you're a grammarian, consider it a verb, though saying that someone "romanced" someone else sounds about as stilted and antiquated as hearing that someone went "a-wooing."
Slender black metal pillars support the upper storey, giving it a stilted appearance.
Kocca puts the mercantilist case for the importance of power and culture in its stilted brochure: "in the information era, it was considered as the leading world technology."
Attempts to understand or imagine her inner life tend to be a bit stilted, perhaps because the author is a historian, not a novelist. But this is a small cavil.
Laotian family rests in the shade of their stilted, thatched roof hut in the fertile lowlands of the Mekong River valley.
The stilted atmosphere would strike outsiders as disconcertingly weird, but these women are oblivious to the awkwardness.
The register moves from a stilted, self-concously old-fashioned rhetoric to blind, almost biblical rage.
When they do speak, which isn't often, it is in long stilted phrases about the wisdom of the ancients.
If you are excited, gesture more vigorously. But remember that predeceased gestures that do not naturally arise from what you are trying to say are likely to appear awkward and stilted.
Our first academic visit, to the History Department of Wuhan University, sticks in my mind for its very stilted and tense nature.
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