Sentence examples for like a stiff from inspiring English sources

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The coils curl like a stiff telephone handset cord.

Are we tunneling forward into the future, or is time blowing past us like a stiff breeze?

Get a blower door, which depressurizes a house so that even the tiniest drafts blow like a stiff wind.

These images often resolved in a posture of awkwardness, as when Scharafali ended up slung over Walerski's body like a stiff doll.

A beautiful blazer in a chambray-ish light blue with gold buttons ($975) had mature, hard shoulders, and fit like a stiff raincoat.

While the adapted race is being kept unpredictable by its relative softness, its original counterpart looks like a stiff contest between the three arguable best picture frontrunners.

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Add more filler if you'd like a stiffer chair.

Frayn's A Stiff Drink, like most of the works in Matchbox Theatre, would occupy about 10 minutes of stage time, which is still on a Shakespearean scale in comparison with the shortest examples of the short form.

But after one misaligned leg servo was eventually sorted out, it was able to waddle along without its grey box-head butting the floor, even pulling off dance moves like a stiff-limbed Cossack.

That underhand fling, after he spun out of a potential sack and stumbled right, might have recalled a younger, gunslinging Favre had he not moved so awkwardly, like a stiff-kneed Joe Namath at the end of his career.

These are some of the things you may find if you give yourself up to the Punchdrunk project: a terrible, dazzling dance to the death, with a woman jerked like a stiff-limbed doll on a huge four-poster, one of many extraordinary feats of choreography by Maxine Doyle, Barrett's vital collaborator.

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