Example sentences for: stiffen

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

  • It's hard enough to work out a deal already, pundits observe, given that Democrats want to soften the censure resolution while Republicans want to stiffen it.

  • whose heart is smallerthan a heart should be,whose feathers stiffen

  • Unsurprisingly, Bennett's project in The Death of Outrage is to stiffen America's backbone, to persuade us to care about Clinton's misdeeds and to punish them.

  • Last week, the U.S. government and European allies agreed they would stiffen sanctions on Serbia to protest the massacres.

  • While Mr. Blair tried to stiffen spines among the other 17 Nato leaders arriving for the Alliance's 50 th birthday, Mr. Clinton made it clear that the world's sole superpower was underwriting the British-led escalation."


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