Example sentences for: stiff

How can you use “stiff” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The next day Susanna discovered Allegra's stiff body lying in grass behind the house, and a couple of days later the body of Bella was discovered in one of her favorite patches of undergrowth.

  • He shuffles arthritically around his castle, and when he rises from his coffin he's as stiff as an ironing board.

  • It is this arm, this right arm, that is still stiff, still scarred, still bent.

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  • Optimists called the penalty stiff and predicted that it would restore some standard of decency to the sport.


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