How To Use Stiffening In A Sentence
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The grin vanished like magic, her whole body stiffening in antipathy as her eyes locked with fathomless brown ones.
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`Then apparently James needs no more stiffening in his collar," Aubrey murmured.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Draconis froze, his body stiffening, his grip slackening.
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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
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La Sylphide also popularized the white tutus, freeing the ballerinas from the bondage of stiffening panniers.
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The coarse, heavy, plain-woven linen or cotton material known as buckram today is used for stiffening, etc.
Textiles and Clothing
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Delete or abrase the scribed mortise lines for the stiffening transoms on the side opposite the corner tenon.
Chapter 7
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Cardiac syncope often causes immediate loss of consciousness, tonic stiffening of body and limbs, and often myoclonic jerking.
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An internal fiberglass liner is glassed in place and provides much of the structural support and stiffening for the hull.
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stiffening his shoulders, he prepared to advance
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For one precious moment the air filled with dragonfly hatchlings, their limp wings stiffening in the sun, performing aerobatic exercises before migrating down to the river.
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Raven was clearly justified in eliding details of the two plots, in the interest of stiffening his adaptation, and making it plausible to 1970s viewers.
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However, more skilful growers and more determined winery owners have pushed several recent examples to heights heretofore not achieved, often with a stiffening soupçon of Cabernet Sauvignon.
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Stiffening competition in the market has led to a reduction in the company's profits this year.
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The wind had come around northwest, stiffening overnight, and everyone knew the cod bit best in a nor'wester.
AMAGANSETT
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How strange -- _how strange_!" she repeated, as she looked down on the little blanched and stiffening face.
Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II
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Fingers like swollen sausages and a terrible paralysis beginning to suffuse him, stiffening his limbs, fevering his mind, Kenneally saw the great shade looming up over the side of the boat, flicking sea water from its slick blue skin.
The Miko
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The most familiar use of starch is as a thickener for cooking sauces, as in cornflour, or perhaps as a substance for stiffening shirt collars.
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Interrupted by an audible gasp of shock from a spinster-appearing female sunning herself hard by and angularly in the sand in a swimming suit monstrously unbeautiful, Lee Barton was aware of an involuntary and almost perceptible stiffening on the part of his wife.
THE KANAKA SURF
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It's personal, and you can sense, amidst the all the uncertainty and trepidation, American resolve stiffening.
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A textile toecap and a plastic shield wrapped around the heel add stiffening.
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He is a little timid, 'he proceeded, stiffening himself, and walking trimly to the stairhead.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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Flags flap briskly in a stiffening wind, providing the only sounds beyond the clicking of cameras and the distant murmur of cars making their slow, careful way to the site.
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Less tightly-woven haircloth provided stiffening for the lapels and coat-tails of European dandies.
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A sure sign, Mrs. Hungerford thought, that she was feeling better; and she watched in secret amusement the sudden stiffening of the angular figure and the compression of the thin lips as the "instructress" looked fixedly out of the carriage window and vouchsafed no other reply.
Dorothy's Travels
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The wind had come around northwest, stiffening overnight, and everyone knew the cod bit best in a nor'wester.
AMAGANSETT
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The smaller muscles in the face and between the fingers start stiffening between two and four hours after death.
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After the hair and fat had been removed, the tanner had to prevent the pelt from stiffening or rotting in one of several ways, as up to this point, it is white and very slimy and should be referred to as raw-hide.
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The word anchylosis signifies the stiffening of a joint.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
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We presented evidence implicating actin polymerization and not actomyosin activity as the dominant mechanism actuating the stiffening response.
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Stiffening competition in the market has led to a reduction in the company's profits this year.
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Stiffening and reinforcement could take the building higher, but not without adding considerable expense.
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The wind had come around northwest, stiffening overnight, and everyone knew the cod bit best in a nor'wester.
AMAGANSETT
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Cardiac syncope often causes immediate loss of consciousness, tonic stiffening of body and limbs, and often myoclonic jerking.
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He really is very old but, rather than becoming frail and wispy, he's stiffening with arthritis and rheumatism and all the creaks and groans that goes with these conditions, becoming rock-like, of the earth.
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The grid acts as stiffening element, bracing the structure against seismic forces.
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Stiffening in the other vertical plane is added by diagonal braces between the lattice girders on both gable walls.
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The motion that caught his attention was the sudden stiffening of the antennae as he spoke, the two plumelike organs expanding sideways and pointing diagonally forward, as though to bring his head between their tips.
Natives of Space
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They are counterbalanced by the traction and stiffening of UA tissues resulting from the contraction of dilator muscles.
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It rippled over and through him like an electrical voltaism, making his body rigid, stiffening what had seemed to be fat into muscle, tensing his hands until they knotted themselves slowly into fists.
The Valley of Silent Men
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European governments are stiffening their resistance to war in Iraq in advance of the weapons inspectors' report to the United Nations security council tomorrow.
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The high-peaked wooden saddle tree was still "cinched" to the stiffening carcass.
A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier
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Stiffening, his hand gravitating to his sword hilt, Ikeda steeled himself, preparing for any situation.
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I saw it in the sudden stiffening of his posture and the sharp flash in his hazel eyes.
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The primary objective of this study is to demonstrate the feasibility of measuring intersection angle of the steel stiffening ring connection using the digital image correlation method (DICM).
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Next, the researchers tweaked their model to simulate stiffening the wings and, separately, to mimic straightening the wing’s curved shape, to see how those changes affected flight efficiency.
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W.J. M. Rankine proved (_Applied M.chanics_, p. 370) that the necessary strength of a stiffening girder would be only one-seventh part of that of an independent girder of the same span as the bridge, suited to carry the same moving load (not including the dead weight of the girder which is supported by the chain).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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Instead of brushing up on their excuses, they should try stiffening their resolve.
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The grin vanished like magic, her whole body stiffening in antipathy as her eyes locked with fathomless brown ones.
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They knew about immediate postmortem changes, such as cooling of the body (algor mortis) and temporary stiffening of the muscles (rigor mortis), but these changes don't really alter the appearance of the deceased.
Plague Vampire Exorcism
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Grim and tearless, he is biting the bullet, squaring his jaw and stiffening his backbone, the way people who've lived through war always do.
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This involved a number of factors such as pogo suppression, structural stiffening, and other details not particularly germane to today's expendable vehicles.
NASA Watch: February 2008 Archives
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For further optimization design, the influences of weld length, stiffening rib and diaphragm plate for the web stresses distribution are studied and compared.
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Camping ground at night was almost unobtainable, and thick, poisonous mists enwreathed the boats during the hours of darkness, fevering the men's blood, cramping and stiffening their limbs.
Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea
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In order to secure this result, the vocalist or speaker must begin by taking breath through the mouth, as we have already insisted, and at once, before there is time for any stiffening of parts, commence to intonate -- _i. e._, as soon as enough air has been inhaled for the purpose intended.
Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)
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When cold it is difficult or impossible to ‘shake out’ the stiffening due to enhanced thixotropy.
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Calcium ions have been mentioned as a possible means of stiffening a mucus secretion.
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Progressive Democrats revolted in the House caucus, stiffening resistance to the Republican bill.
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It took four hours for British paratroopers to reach the bridges on foot, by which time German resistance was already stiffening.
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They are counterbalanced by the traction and stiffening of UA tissues resulting from the contraction of dilator muscles.
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I'm not sure whether it was a way of stiffening my virtuous resolve, or making sure she was there.
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
