Sentence examples for a stiff hand from inspiring English sources

He just dug at him with a stiff hand, thinking a laugh would come out, some sound of pleasure.

At the end of his speech, he moves a stiff hand across his neck, a cut-throat gesture that would represent a threat if made by almost anyone else.

Use a stiff hand to hit the side of the deck hard.

If you have a stiff hand and the count says - whatever it is), card counting may swing the play from "surrender"or "stand" to "hit".

If she doesn't repeat what you said in a slightly louder tone and point with a stiff hand at the door.

In his professional debut, the junior middleweight Sechew Powell of Brooklyn staggered Aundalen Sloan of Milwaukee (3-4-1) with a stiff right hand in the first round, leading to a technical knockout in the second round.

Adams, slightly shorter than her opponent in the semi-final and familiar with all her tricks, sought to go under her jab but walked on to a stiff right hand inside the first minute.

However, the Ballybofey man was in trouble within the first two minutes of action as he was dumped to the canvas by a stiff left hand by the Kazakh fighter.

Despite Gomez's strong start, Alvarez dazed Gomez with a stiff right hand shot in the fourth round, after which the Argentinian launched into a furious onslaught.

"It's nice, right?" said Dr. Brier, a professor of philosophy and the Island's only Egyptologist, cradling the stiff hand.

The stiff hand is badly done.