Sentence examples for rigid like from inspiring English sources

In the natural world, however, bodies are more likely to be flexible, like a fish's, rather than rigid, like a car's.

I'm very rigid like that".

It lay rigid, like a toppled sculpture.

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

My preferred purse was gigantic and discreetly rigid, like a suitcase.

The tavern scenes – molls with arms akimbo and accents afloat – are rigid, like unsung musicals.

Whilst 'stiffness' is a recognised physical property of substrates and tissue microenvironments that influences many cellular behaviours, tissues and their extracellular matrices are not purely rigid but 'viscoelastic' materials, composed of both rigid-like (elastic) and dissipative (viscous) elements.

One of the established characteristics of small NPs is their capacity to undergo dynamic transitions between rigid solid-like and liquid-like states.

This was a shortlived craze that involved posing for a photograph while lying facedown in a rigid plank-like position.

NSC11668 possesses a rigid, purine-like scaffold similar to that of many other pharmaceuticals.

This filling is not rigid band-like, and it reflects disorder in the K sites.