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
If you’re a working stiff with a W-2 and some 1099s, the government already has most of your tax information, and the collection process associated with that information is largely automated.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2025
Gilbert holds up his fingers, stiff with arthritis.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2022
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
The sewing took effort—the cloth was tough, stiff with age; and several times he jabbed the needle up into the space under his fingernail—but he found it unexpectedly satisfying.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
