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Example sentences for "stiffer"

Lexicographically close words:
stiffe; stiffen; stiffened; stiffening; stiffens; stiffest; stiffish; stiffly; stiffnecked; stiffness
  1. It is necessary to make this kind of bread a little stiffer than that in which no rice is used, else there will be a heavy streak through the loaf.

  2. Supposing the wood in each case to be of exactly the same quality, B will obviously be not only stiffer but heavier than A, C will be stiffer but no heavier, D will be equally stiff but lighter.

  3. It is usually necessary to replace these glasses from time to time as the crystalline lens becomes stiffer and stiffer and ordinary accommodation fails more and more.

  4. Scarce had they done so when the wolf began to strain and pull, but the more he did so the tighter and stiffer the rope became.

  5. So he held himself stiffer than ever, and the chamberlains carried the invisible train.

  6. I'll bet you a plugged credit that if you had opened that door you'd have been frozen stiffer than a snowman on Pluto.

  7. The first one of you tin soldiers that puts a foot on these steps gets frozen stiffer than a snowball on Pluto!

  8. In capacity for business united with stability of roadbed, mainly due to stronger and stiffer rails and to adapted improvement in rolling stock, railroad progress in the past fifteen years is equal to that of the sixty years preceding.

  9. The courts, however, are getting stiffer and stiffer in regard to these matters.

  10. Prince, stiffer and sterner, glared for some seconds, then turned to the gang way up into the airship.

  11. Der Prinz," said a voice, and all the men became stiffer and less natural.

  12. My prick stiffer and stiffer drove with fury up against her womb.

  13. Cock stiffer I went towards my bedroom, passed her door, heard her moving inside, and that settled me.

  14. The writer deduces from this experiment that a plate web is an exceedingly stiff member, much stiffer than is commonly supposed; that the customary method of proportioning rivets--viz.

  15. This process, however, whilst very good for the softer hats used on the Continent, is not so satisfactory for the harder, stiffer headgear demanded in Great Britain.

  16. It took longer than the bread, because it was a little stiffer and also the bread and additional flour weakened the yeast.

  17. If the dough is too soft—it should be stiffer than bread-dough, yet quite elastic—you can add a very little flour.

  18. Those who are most familiar with it are of the opinion that in a general way the leaves increase in thickness southward and that the pubescence diminishes in quantity and becomes stiffer on dry, poor soils.

  19. In these regions the soil is a clay loam from several inches to a foot deep resting upon a stiffer and more tenacious clay.

  20. Hamilton and Harry seemed by their looks to say, "We could easily face even a stiffer breeze than that, if need be.

  21. As soon as he recovered from the jar, which shook his stiff joints and stiffer back, he ran to the coast-guardsman and raised him, and found him very much inclined to swear.

  22. Eliza, allow me," said Mistress Yordas, in her stiffer manner, and now for the first time interfering.

  23. It is important to remember, however, that the dough for eclairs must be stiffer than for cream cakes.

  24. If, for any reason, our workers should not follow the directions given, they must bear in mind that the thicker and stiffer the material, the more they will have to allow for the knots and vice versa.

  25. It seemed to contradict all the jolly things that were connected in his mind with his uncle, who was stiffer in manner than his father, but so kind-hearted underneath it all.

  26. He's stiff about things; he's got stiffer as he's got older.

  27. It was nothing less than effrontery; and Cecil became stiffer and colder than ever.

  28. The stiffer intellectual discipline, the discipline of physics and of algebra, invoked for the benefit of an understanding undisputedly weak and shy, had been accepted on my side as a blessing perhaps in disguise.

  29. Don't withdraw, you dear, your prick is stiffer than ever, as I feel it throbbing and swelling inside me.

  30. Stiffer than ever, I plunged in, but not too fast.

  31. He sat stiffer and stiffer in his chair, and the veins in his nose grew deeper and deeper in hue.

  32. Since his talk with Armstrong, he had been remeasuring with more care that young man's character, and had come to the conclusion that he was entering upon a much stiffer campaign than he had anticipated.

  33. Presently she vaguely heard Narcisse saying, "I've got to put up a stiffer fight against this loneliness.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stiffer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.