Sentence examples for grew stiffer from inspiring English sources

He woke up with a kink in his lower back from sleeping on a hotel mattress that was too soft, and as he warmed up on the range at Bethpage State Park, his back grew stiffer.

Even when the penalties for switching grew stiffer — besides losing a click, the players had to pay a cash fee — the students kept losing money by frantically keeping all their doors open.

When the men in ribbons got up from their brass-rimmed table under the stuffed moose heads, the private rose with his shirttail hanging out, grew stiffer than his drink and cleared his throat.

Those reserves grew $280.6 billion in the first half of this year — a pace of $64 million an hour.

On the whole, this staccato version of the strategy grew $1,000 into $1,273.

Average credit card receivables in the quarter grew $1.9 billion, or 28.3%, from the first quarter of 2007.

Total backlog grew $19 billion, year-over-year, an increase of 42%.

But the program fell 5 years behind schedule and grew $7.5 billion over budget.

Indeed, his initial inspection suggested the stuff was actually growing stiffer.

— the students grow $2,500 worth of vegetables weekly.

In the past 10 years the university's income has grown 69 per cent.