stiffener
Example Sentences
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I particularly like shirts with long, pointed, soft collars without stiffeners, like men wore in the 1930s.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2023
These days you don’t need to, as lots of shirts have collar stiffeners in them.
From The Guardian • Dec. 5, 2019
Lockheed gets around the obstacle by chewing large parts of the wing�skin, stiffeners, etc.�out of heavy slabs of aluminum.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the bottles as stiffeners, newspapers are rolled into bolsters to shield the mother from outside germs.
From Time Magazine Archive
A third horizontal timber near the top serves as a seat for the ends of the joists carrying the slab lagging and is braced from the bottom horizontal by vertical stiffeners.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers
