Sentence examples for stiff like from inspiring English sources

She was always so stiff, like a telephone pole".

Not some stiff like Michael Dukakis reading books about Swedish crop rotation.

To finish, she whips egg whites until stiff, like Ms. Kamman, and folds these in at the very end.

He could then shut off investigations into political influence within Justice before "an incorruptible stiff" like Ashcroft takes charge.

"He is a charming man and he didn't just shake your hand all stiff, like the rest of them".

Mr. Rosenblatt's prediction: "I don't think it's going to be a stiff," like the H.P. TouchPad, "but its success will be moderate".

First, two different types of geologic formations are identified: plastic, soil-like, and stiff, rock-like, argillaceous formations.

Mr. Groebli, in particular, reveled in square, stiff, clockwork-like moves, particularly evident in his toy soldier routine.

Subsequently, the monolayer cell-matrix complex cultured in Asc-2P became a stiff sheet-like structure.

Hence it is an attractive candidate for the solution of large-scale, moderately stiff, diffusion-like problems.

Aromatic compounds, 6-hydroxyl-2-naphthoic acid, 2,6-naphthlenedicarboxylic acid, 4-hydroxybenzoic acid or terephthalic acid, were used as polycyclic stiff rod-like mesogenic groups.