(1) Their carefully judged mischief lightened the whole mixture like stiffly beaten egg-whites.
(2) "I understand your question," the president said stiffly.
(3) A little stiffly, he stood at a lectern with a large projector screen beside him.
(4) The sponge is made from stiffly beaten egg whites and ground almonds.
(5) First it will be softly whipped, then stiffly whipped.
(6) Of the 15-month-old children, 90% walked with ability to stop and start, and 90% of the 18-month-old were in addition able to walk backwards, run stiffly, climb up and down a standard staircase and seat themselves in an armchair of suitable size.
(7) Nonetheless, as Angela Eagle said stiffly on Sunday’s Andrew Marr show when asked: “He’s the leader we’ve got.” Ejection is fanciful, unless the membership changes its mind.
(8) "I don't sleep around, if that's what you mean," she says stiffly.
(9) She stood stiffly, scenting the air, her sparse brush in an uneasy curl.
(10) Highlights include a stiffly worded letter from a gentleman complaining to the home secretary about the lack of sanitary towels for suffragettes in Holloway (while avoiding using the phrase “sanitary towels”) and a Daily Express article about Miss Muriel Matters who took to a dirigible to drop paper bills on parliament in return for their “dropping” of the women’s suffrage bills.
(11) He tells him to loosen his shoulders and Crozier, sitting stiffly and gripping a Royal Mail mug, makes an effort to shrug a little.
(12) Garrison, in orange face, sits stiffly on his sofa.
(13) The 54-year-old, sitting stiffly upright on the small wooden deck of her immaculately kept trailer home backing on to the railway line, has spent her adult life navigating the obstacles and traps of living below the poverty line as she raised five children on her own.
(14) "We look at those fast-fading sepia photographs of people posing stiffly, proudly in uniform, in many cases the first and last image ever taken of them.
(15) Standing stiffly in a control centre overlooking Helsinki harbour against a backdrop of grey seas and driving sleet, he appears poised to dash off at any moment for a real-life remake of the Sean Connery film The Hunt for Red October.
(16) They always stood erectly and stiffly on the perch; they were unable to roost.
(17) There are certain contractual obligations and one does the best that one can do,” he says stiffly when I ask about press interviews.
(18) The two leftwing parties supporting the governing coalition are also stiffly opposed to the proposed savings saying it is impossible to impose such stringent policies on a “society that is disintegrating” after more than two years of repeated tax hikes, pay and pension cuts.
(19) The quenelle One hand points stiffly downwards, while the other is raised across the chest.
(20) Then he was a slim six-footer who hoped to be the first person with cystic fibrosis to climb Everest; now, he’s about two stones lighter, a gaunt figure moving stiffly.
Stiffy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) You mean, you couldn’t be seen at the Royal Academy in a nice frock and a stiffy?
(2) Assessments were made of duration of morning stiffiness, grip strength, articular index, joint size, and degree of pain.
(3) The affected cows were reluctant to walk, moved stiffy and in severe cases became recumbent.