stiffen

How To Use stiffen In A Sentence

• She could feel underclothes, linen drawers, silken chemise, a farthingale with its stiffened hoops. Ill Met By Moonlight
• `Then apparently James needs no more stiffening in his collar," Aubrey murmured. THE LAST RAVEN
• The fledgling stiffened, feathers bristling as though roused by a gale.
• The skin is fibreglass over a thin layer of plywood, which is itself supported by a skeleton of thicker ply, stiffened by a steel structure.
• The Queen heard it as well, for Margaret saw her shoulders stiffen almost imperceptibly.
• Millner, keenly aware that an aromatic savarin au rhum was describing an arc behind his head previous to being rushed back to the pantry under young Draper's indifferent eye, stiffened himself against this last assault of the enemy, and read out firmly: "What relation do you consider that a man's business conduct should bear to his religious and domestic life? The Blond Beast
• Weiss stiffened in his boots, the scar dragging down his eye seemed to pulsate. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
• Draconis froze, his body stiffening, his grip slackening.
• He stiffened when he saw his boss enter the room
• The ordinary manipulation of the shoulder can be accomplished with the patient lying down; but if special conditions, such as articular stiffening, call for unusual care or unusual force, it will be found best to treat the shoulder with the patient seated. Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria