Sentence examples for stiff clothes from inspiring English sources

His personality as rebel is framed all the more stylishly by his stiff clothes.

I don't like shiny or stiff clothes; these are relaxed and have a lived-in feel and look.

On filed the chorus, in a quasi strip-the-willow crisscross, followed by soloists clutching scores, wearing stiff clothes and coy "we're sorry we can't smile" expressions, as if readying themselves for Beethoven's Ninth rather than a Broadway hit.

They just pair up in different configurations to chew the fat about things and subtly insult each other while wearing stiff clothes and looking uncomfortable in rooms that are a bit too formal.

"That was something actors did on television and in the movies: white women with stiff clothes and crisp-looking aprons and perfect hair who never sweated as they ran around doing housework for the husbands they called 'hon.' " Nobody calls her husband "hon" in Maroko, and not much housework gets done either.

Aerobics will lead you through a wide range of motions, so don't wear stiff clothes that will keep you from moving your arms and legs comfortably.

Tight clothes of stiff material can keep parts of the body from naturally expanding and from supporting themselves.

Old clothes, stiff from dirt and rain, hang from branches.

Too much detergent can make your clothes stiff and shorten the life of your machine.

The would-be maenads were brought down with their clothes stiff as boards, having, in all their frenzy, accepted rescue.

On his first day at Fernald, Freddie Boyce, a 7-year-old orphan, shy, slow to talk and the survivor of seven foster homes, was stripped by a social worker and dressed in stiff dungarees -- clothes that would mark him as a "state boy," a child, that is, with no family connections.