Sentence examples for stiff read from inspiring English sources

And competition for big, alluring spaces is stiff (read: astronomically expensive).

But one ad is more unusual: Jacqueline Kennedy asking viewers in Spanish to vote for her husband: "Que viva Kennedy!" Mrs. Kennedy's accent was quite good, but her voice was as breathy in Spanish as it was in English, and she seems quite stiff reading a cue card while standing in front of surprisingly ugly wallpaper.

Suddenly my sofa felt stiff after reading that email.

For Gore, read Stiff.

You should read: "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers," by Mary Roach.

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

This was a nomination from ripley1, who wrote "I felt frozen stiff and windblown reading most of it".

We stopped at an old Ford plant and stood in a stiff, cold wind, reading a plaque put up by the Michigan Historical Commission: "Here at his Highland Park plant, Henry Ford began the mass production of automobiles on a moving assembly line.

People will forgive you for being a little stiff or sappy, reading off cards, or being a little boring, but if you ruin the reception with a dirty joke and embarrass the bride, NO ONE will ever forgive you -- especially her.

One day, he read about Stiff Records, a new label that had taken on Nick Lowe, whose band, Brinsley Schwarz, had become his pub-scene favorite.

Wodehouse: Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, read by Simon Callow (Penguin £8.99) Bertie Wooster finds himself as house guest at frightful Totleigh Towers, where lurks Madeline, a 'cross between a ticking bomb and a poltergeist', planning to enmesh him when her engagement to Gussie Fink-Nottle fizzles out.