Sentence examples for hard or rigid from inspiring English sources

Accident statistics show that although the certification of aircraft structures is based on crash scenarios on hard or rigid surfaces, in reality most of the crash cases occur on soft soil or water.

Some of us come home with hard peaches, or rigid avocados that simply aren't ready for mashing.

That doesn't mean they have to be hard-nosed or rigid.

Concerning the desired physical properties including transparency, low melt viscosity and melting temperature as well as a wide range of hardness grades from soft (flexible) to hard (rigid), three different hardness grades of thermoplastic polyurethanes were found to be the best candidates for this lens application.

Transactional systems remain in a hard coded, rigid structured approach.

Such solids are hard and rigid and have high melting points because the crystal is like one enormous molecule.

Roy's body attracts flies, smells worse by the minute, and goes hard and rigid like stone.

On top of all that, silicon chips are hard and rigid, restricting their application in things like flexible display screens.

The nymph, which lacks the locomotor and reproductive ability of the adult, also lacks the hard and rigid extensive exoskeleton necessary for strong muscle action.

The leaves of these small to medium-sized trees are relatively hard and rigid compared with those of the closely related Taxus.

Combining "soft" but flexible storytelling techniques with "hard" but rigid quantitative analyses can be an extremely powerful way to make sense of complex systems.