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How to use Stiff in a sentence

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Stiff penalties are to be introduced for people who make bogus insurance claims.
Stiff zoning laws, even when they're well-intended, result in unintended consequences.
Stiff cuticles are simple to recognize, and loricate genera can often be recognized based upon lorica shape alone.
With a spectator's hat on, you'd need a stiff drink to even think about it.
She asked Congress on Saturday to legislate stiff punishments for illegal loggers, stopping short of calling for the death penalty.
If it's sandy or stiff with clay, dig in humus to improve water retention and aeration.
The style, when it is not terse and apophthegmatic, as of one trying to imitate Bacon, is stiff with conceits and long-winded sentences.
Stiff cliched characters, unreal situations, and a bit too much autobiography.
I'm now a bit stiff and have a big lump on my right foot where I caught a guy on the elbow.
I don't feel any better for it today, in fact if anything my body is really achy and stiff probably from lying down for so long.
I've let this old carcass get as stiff as beef jerky on a cold winter morning.
But the upper class is scared stiff of his rise, and plots to foil his attempts through fraud.
The stiff and stylised human forms dominate, colluding powerfully with the resonant colours.
Stiff competition in various categories of durables and among firms which make items of daily consumption, means that no great price hikes are anticipated.
The air was cold and a stiff wind had blown up, howling down corridors like a banshee.
Pressure is constantly applied on school administrations to attract greater numbers or face stiff funding cuts.
It broke down not because it met with stiff physical resistance from security forces but more because it was an ideological flop.
Stiff muscles and raw skin make basic movements extremely difficult.
The company is facing stiff competition from rivals that have launched new products such as DVD players and televisions.
She was dressed in a style I had only seen in old portraits, a stiff black dress with flaring skirts and a lace-ornamented stomacher.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Stiff old steeds vainly essayed a nimbler gait, but gave it up in a few rods, and fell back to the steady jog.
Stiff and saddle-sore as he was, Eckstein leaped out of his chair with an oath.
Stiff and suffering as these young fellows were, it was no easy matter to get the window back into place and re-light the fire.
The cockspur thorn is a small, handsome tree, fifteen to twenty feet high, with stiff branches in a broad round head.
More and more we are getting away from the cold, stiff planting of Canna, coleus, and Salvia.
Lamb worked his way up into the throng and got a glimpse of the other guy getting stiff on the backroom floor.
The platinum wire used in bacteriologic work is less satisfactory because not usually stiff enough.
The blood had congealed in my hands until they were so stiff as to be almost useless.
The other two Japs have short, stiff poles with a wire attached and the barbless hook at the end.
If the limbs be swelled, or joints stiff, it will be proper to foment them with warm vinegar, or bathe them in lukewarm water.
The dog did not look at her, but crocked under him the leg that had been stiff like a ramrod and spread out another.
A stiff jolt of elderberry wine drove off the jitters and reasoning returned.
Soon enough she found him, not far off, stiff and cold beside his half-cut bundle of firewood.
It has eased my joints, which were somewhat stiff from these years of peace.
Pour upon three egg-whites beaten very stiff, flavor with vanilla or bitter almond, and spread between layers.
When that Melvin boy, that bugler, saw us coming to that porch he was scared stiff.
This meant Welshmen Evans and Alex Gough moved up the order, with Stiff coming in as third string.
Ma's scared stiff about me, thinks the devil's got an option on my future sure.
He stood with his elbows stiff against his sides, a derringer in each hand.
After a stiff climb the summit of the Amersfoort Hills was reached just before dark.
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