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Example sentences for "stiffs"

Lexicographically close words:
stiffest; stiffish; stiffly; stiffnecked; stiffness; stifle; stifled; stifles; stifling; stifly
  1. One exception, however, exists: a vote of only a majority of the members present in each house is required to amend a bill.

  2. Soon the entire theater was a flaming mass.

  3. A city may increase the salary of its circuit or city judges if the city assumes the entire increase and guarantees that such salary will not be diminished during the entire term of office.

  4. They 're good stiffs all right, and every one has a membership card in the I.

  5. But it took the stiffs to honor Cockney for that knife-play.

  6. Besides, Boston, we're not likely to have any bad weather, for which you can say a prayer of thanks, for you stiffs would catch it if we did pick up a decent blow.

  7. We all believed implicitly in ghosts, I, and the squareheads, Nigger and Cockney, and even the stiffs who had not the sea in their blood.

  8. They were just as convinced as the rest of the stiffs that the afterguard had suddenly become afraid of the foc'sle.

  9. The stiffs were useless aloft on such a night, and the fore and main were given the handful of squareheads and the two tradesmen.

  10. Don't imagine for a minute these stiffs will face guns.

  11. I didn't like the way he lorded it over the stiffs in my watch, even if the stiffs themselves did like it.

  12. The sailors knew ships as the stiffs did not.

  13. Lynch had no mercy on the stiffs of our watch; he hammered the rudiments of seamanship into them with astonishing speed.

  14. It was necessary that he accustom some of the crew, even a few stiffs if no more, to follow his leadership.

  15. These cringing stiffs began to swank and swagger.

  16. I've sent two stiffs down here to youse already, to help keep you goin' till I comes.

  17. Them law-makin' stiffs is goin' to take your vote away!

  18. But of his studies Babbitt could learn nothing save a mumbled, "Oh, gosh, these old stiffs of teachers just give you a lot of junk about literature and economics.

  19. You never want to have anybody with any git to 'em at the house; you want a bunch of old stiffs that sit around and gas about the weather.

  20. But you Blackwater stiffs want to hang around town and let somebody else do the work.

  21. These Blackwater stiffs that wanted to run me out of town are coming around now to borrow five.

  22. But these Blackwater stiffs will sure throw it into me when they find I've been trimmed by a girl.

  23. Wunpost, laughing exultantly, "but you Blackwater stiffs will bite at anything.

  24. The other stiffs slouched away, but McGarver and Satan were still discussing the fight.

  25. The stiffs and bosses were talking excitedly of the fight.

  26. There is not often more than one or two barrel stiffs to one house, and that is why the landlord welcomes them; in fact he often invites the stiff to have a drink, and sends him on an errand or uses his services to collect empty glasses.

  27. Yuh look like stiffs laid out for de boneyard!

  28. I turned my cards over to one of the stiffs who was looking on, and excused myself.

  29. He drove some o' them Eastern stiffs nearly wild with the way he throws his feet.

  30. He was speaking some strange words; they sounded like the words the mission stiffs used; they must be out of the Bible.

  31. He had never known kindness in a prison before, save among the prisoners themselves, and often they were cruel and mean to each other--like the rats and mission-stiffs who were always snitching and having them chalked and stood out.

  32. Are youse stiffs comin' down off out of dat roof?

  33. If you two stiffs ain't able to support yourselves you'd ought to apply for admission to the poorhouse or the Home For the Feeble-minded.

  34. They got to ship them stiffs to China to rest alongside their ancestors or be in Dutch with the sperrits o' the departed forever after.

  35. ME--I did that for a hundred bucks an' a bunch of stiffs I'd be ashamed to wipe my feet on.


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