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Example sentences for "stiffest"

Lexicographically close words:
stiffen; stiffened; stiffening; stiffens; stiffer; stiffish; stiffly; stiffnecked; stiffness; stiffs
  1. The stiffest balk bends more or less; all joists creak.

  2. Each bell At your foot, each bud that your culture spurns, The very cowslip would act like myrrh On the stiffest brew--good Sir!

  3. Ireland is here in America, and the last and stiffest of her young blood is afield for England.

  4. They met invariably the stiffest foe of a fine child--misunderstanding; often by that time, even the Mother had lost her vision.

  5. But as he walked to church, flanked on one side by Aunt Caroline in the stiffest of ginghams and on the other by her husband stately in the magnificence of an antiquated "Jim-swinger," his mind went back to the boy with sorrow.

  6. To tell you the truth,' he said in his stiffest style, 'I haven't yet had time to look at a copy.

  7. When it is broken up, therefore, particles of soil are so separated that they tend to fall apart, hence the soil is always made more or less friable, even when it consists of the stiffest clays.

  8. It will also grow well on the stiffest clays, whether white or red, when moisture is present.

  9. Number Seven was one of the stiffest of Klinker's Exercises for All Parts of the Body.

  10. I cannot undertake," he said, in his stiffest way, "to analyze all my motives at all times for your satisfaction.

  11. So, by the time the worthy lady was heard descending, they were all in the drawing-room, seated primly on the stiffest chairs they could find, and apparently absorbed in the books they gazed at with serious faces and furrowed brows.

  12. Betty and Anthony were sitting on two of the stiffest and most uncomfortable-looking chairs in the room, with very grave expressions on their pale but not too clean faces.

  13. Beat three egg-whites well chilled to the stiffest possible froth with a pinch of salt, and a very little cold water.

  14. Then fold in the whites of sixteen eggs beaten with a pinch of salt to the stiffest possible froth.

  15. Tottenville High School always gave one of the stiffest games that Gridley had to meet.

  16. No; we're ready for Saturday, and will give you the stiffest fight that is in us," returned Jarvis.

  17. Gods with glass eyes and the stiffest of limbs yet bore a resemblance to human beings.

  18. The loss of the enemy in this battle, one of the stiffest in the history of Afghanistan, were severe.

  19. The battle of Mazra, one of the stiffest of the many battles between Britain and Afghanistan, was the deciding blow in a campaign with a curious history.

  20. It was the steady joy of her life to see the doctor's young gentlemen go out walking, in the largest possible shirt-collars and the stiffest possible cravats.

  21. The tide of callers which had set in towards Maumsey Abbey ceased to flow; neighbours who had been already introduced to her, old friends of her grandparents, passed Delia on the road with either the stiffest of bows or no notice at all.

  22. In the winter the winds are stiffest and blow most, so these trees whisper, chatter, sob, laugh, and at times roar until the sound is deafening.

  23. I won't yield without the stiffest fight it is in me to make.

  24. Well, there will be a drag from that over the stiffest country to Bolton Mill.

  25. Upon stiff clays, we have no experience of our own of any value, although we have a field of the stiffest clay, drained last season at 40 feet distances and four feet depth.

  26. It was five minutes to nine when they rustled in with their stiffest mien and downcast eyes.


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