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Example sentences for: stiff

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Some also levy a stiff, non-consumable cover charge.
How to sit (not too slumpy, not too stiff), what to do with his hands (kept them quiet, don't gesticulate or fiddle with your ear or other body part), how to arrange his expressions (relaxed, alert, open, affable), how to speak in sound bites (don't digress!
Without this explanation, Beale's cryptic “Ex note scribbled on stiff shirtcuff” would give a laundryman nightmares.
The editorial described Sonia Gandhi as "stiff and inarticulate" and said many people considered her "a ventriloquist's puppet and an instrument of a self-serving coterie."
Both the NYT and WP run stories on a development sure to be cited in this country by libertarians chafing against proposed Internet regulation: China's imposition today of stiff fines and prison sentences for distribution or consumption via the Net of "harmful information," defined as that which "defames government agencies," "impedes public order," or "damages state interests."