stiffening

How To Use stiffening In A Sentence

• The grin vanished like magic, her whole body stiffening in antipathy as her eyes locked with fathomless brown ones.
• `Then apparently James needs no more stiffening in his collar," Aubrey murmured. THE LAST RAVEN
• Draconis froze, his body stiffening, his grip slackening.
• 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
• La Sylphide also popularized the white tutus, freeing the ballerinas from the bondage of stiffening panniers.
• The coarse, heavy, plain-woven linen or cotton material known as buckram today is used for stiffening, etc. Textiles and Clothing
• Delete or abrase the scribed mortise lines for the stiffening transoms on the side opposite the corner tenon. Chapter 7
• Cardiac syncope often causes immediate loss of consciousness, tonic stiffening of body and limbs, and often myoclonic jerking.
• An internal fiberglass liner is glassed in place and provides much of the structural support and stiffening for the hull.
• stiffening his shoulders, he prepared to advance