Sentence examples for a stiff start from inspiring English sources

Dominic Rowan grows from a stiff start as Torvald into a wonderful drunk scene, a sexual encounter which, when interrupted, caused one audience member not merely to sigh but groan with pain, and an exceptionally funny imitation of the horrors of knitting: "There's something Chinese about it".

It was a stiff start to the Florida Swing.

After a somewhat stiff start he quickly warmed up, shifting deftly among the moods of the 20 songs.

It said something about the Americans' stiff start and Argentina's instant dominance that the opening goal only took three minutes and yet it felt like it was coming.

Paul Revere had a stiff snort of rum before starting on his midnight ride.

Mussina is returning from a stiff elbow to start Wednesday for the first time in almost six weeks, and he said it would take him six starts to feel normal.

Even the recently passed bill for a Medicare prescription drug benefit, which will ultimately relieve Medicaid of some of its drug expenditures, will impose stiff start-up costs on the states.

Moreover, Stiff started Britain's do-it-yourself independent label boom but was never comfortable with the anarchic philosophies or brash recordings favoured by most of its successors, such as Beggar's Banquet's 4AD, Daniel Miller's Mute, and Miles Copeland's Step Forward (the last of which moved quickly from punk to the pop-oriented sound of the Police).

A stiff caramel cappuccino started my right knee bouncing the laptop up and down.

Ed Yarnall has a stiff back and will start for the first time on Sunday and Ramiro Mendoza has bronchitis and will make his first spring start on Friday.

Elsewhere Gloucester, who have 10 players unavailable through World Cup duty or injury, face a stiff test as they start their trophy defence at home to the in-form London Irish tomorrow.