stiffly

How To Use stiffly In A Sentence

• As they negotiated the park gates and turned into the crowded thoroughfare, Patience sat, stiffly erect; inside, her emotions churned. A RAKE'S VOW
• When dawn broke, he rose stiffly, and stretched his aching limbs.
• Odin walked stiffly, like a head hung between two heavy stilts draped in striped Viyella and white towelling. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
• Slowly, moving stiffly, he walked out of the power-house and across to the railings. THE WHITE DOVE
• Then she said stiffly, `Well, since my friend didn't deign to tell me last night, I had to find out through the grapevine. AN OLDER WOMAN
• Then she said stiffly, `Well, since my friend didn't deign to tell me last night, I had to find out through the grapevine. AN OLDER WOMAN
• From her slim hands, poised delicatly = yet stiffly = around the remote to her car stereo, to the stretch of long, organized, red hair that dangles down the front of her hippish-styled Target shirt = of which she has purchased all they produced since last may = Shes batting her eyes at me, thick, clumped mascara on curled, lined eyelashes ... she speaks. Breakthedark Diary Entry
• Stone curlews - now called thick-knees - glare at you in basilisk manner, spurt stiffly a few yards and then glare at you again, surprised that you're still there.
• Labour's most memorable poster during its campaign was one of Tory leader William Hague, with his normally bald head sporting Margaret Thatcher's stiffly lacquered hairdo.
• Marching stiffly across the room he performed a perfect about-turn before slapping his tiny sandalled foot on the clay floor and saluting.