up to the hilt

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• The film merely reaffirms that he’s an ambitious entrepreneur who saw a financial opportunity and exploited it to the hilt, and then doubled-down when calls for his head rang out.

• The grave also included jewelry traditionally associated with women and two swords, including one with a bronze hilt, typically attributed to men.

• In a panic, I grabbed the hilt of my sword, ready to cut down my foe.

• When I heard the snap of branches coming from the darkness surrounding our camp, my hand tightened around the hilt of my sword.

• All sleek and tightly constructed, all packed to the hilt with quality character actors, all the type of films you’d happily watch for half an hour before realizing you’d already rented them before.

• The premise of the sketch was that sex was too spontaneous to be regulated, and the quiz show played that idea to the hilt.

• He played affirmative action to the hilt and took full advantage of it.

• "He had enthusiasm to the hilt," said his niece, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.

• Since then, Becky Hilt says she avoids eye contact with Thomas whenever he walks his dog.

• His open brow lowered, and his fingers instinctively began playing with the hilt of his sabre.

• George, seeing no living soul, struck the hilt of his sword sharply against the door of the castle.

• Mary stepped beside him, took the hilt in both her little hands, and made shift to raise the great sword.

• In the traditions of Denmark, the oath upon the sword-hilt was preserved in a spirit of deep solemnity.

• But ten thousand saw Musa's hand clap to hilt, and Iftikhar's lance half fall to rest.