How To Use Stiff-backed In A Sentence

• The Narcheska seemed in high dudgeon, walking stiff-backed as a soldier. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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• the guards stood stiff-backed and unsmiling
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• The kitchen was in spotless order, and she sat down on a stiff-backed chair by the window to wait for her brother. Further Chronicles of Avonlea
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• The boarded floor was carpetless; the three or four stiff-backed, green - painted chairs seemed once to have furnished the kitchen of some farm-house; a desk of strong, solid formation, the table aforesaid, and some framed sheets on the stone-coloured walls, bearing plans for building, for gardening, designs of machinery, etc., completed the furniture of the place. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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• Made during the Second World War, it’s packed with jingoistic Americanism, but this ties in with Cohan’s own attitudes and the unself-conscious sentimentality of his songs, and Cagney’s stiff-backed hoofing is so spirited that the moldly plot turns hardly bother one. 2009 July 04 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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