stiff with
Example Sentences
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My one good spatula had gone missing under a tea towel stiff with dough.
From Salon • Oct. 14, 2025
It’s a great time to be a regular stiff with an account balance that doesn’t exceed $250,000.
From Slate • Mar. 15, 2023
Her face stiff with the effort to appear normal, her limbs loose and untrustworthy, she moves about the world gingerly, hesitantly.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2022
Even when she was in her prime, Mom’s hands were often stiff with rheumatoid arthritis, and that cheese grater really tested her mettle.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 11, 2022
They were all so respectful and stiff with her, that she might have been the Empress of Japan.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
