stiff
Example Sentences
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Today, though, with her mouth curved into a stiff upward bow and her eyes wide, she looked more like she was meeting a ghost.
From Literature
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A whispery clicking sound comes from behind me, and a stiff tail licks my pant leg.
From Literature
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It clung feebly to the girl’s body, as if a stiff wind could blow her into the Afterlife.
From Literature
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The buyout price was a stiff 13 times that amount.
From Barron's
On a drizzly march afternoon, as a stiff breeze blows in off the North Sea, a handful of vans are parked along Scarborough's Royal Albert Drive.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.