Sentence examples for stiff sofa from inspiring English sources

Nina usually spent the evening in one corner of Pavlik's stiff sofa, away from her husband and the other guests, who sat on the floor by the cold fireplace.

He takes a seat on a stiff antique sofa, a grandfather clock reminding him that he is exactly on time and that District Attorney Monique Lamont (Money La-Mount, as he calls her), the woman who basically runs his life, is nowhere in sight.

I reach the chalet - a beautiful monument of carved balconies and new wood - but dreams of finding a husband at the champagne reception vanish as soon as I enter the spanking new tiled-floor, white-wall, wood-beam living room to meet the two banks of fellow guests lined up on stiff red sofas.

Suddenly my sofa felt stiff after reading that email.

Its furnishings were from another era: horsehair sofas with stiff velvet, threadbare Oriental rugs.

So I settle, stiff-backed, on her sofa, and wait for the doctor to give in.

We all gather in a large room, plushly carpeted in a sickly peach, with mushroom-coloured velvet drapes and stiff, silk-covered Louis Quatorze sofas.

Local Chinese officials in suits sat stiff-necked on sofas, watching women in long black gowns solemnly twirling around the marble floor as a synthesizer produced an approximation of the "Blue Danube" waltz.

Then everyone goes home for Christmas and you collapse on the sofa with a stiff drink?

In an annex at the louche Pikes hotel in Ibiza, Idris Elba is stretched across a sofa, sipping a stiff drink.

With regular movie nights and Friends quizzes (on a classic episode) held every week, fans won't be short of reasons to grab a coffee … but competition for that sofa is always stiff.