Sentence examples for stiff start from inspiring English sources
After a somewhat stiff start he quickly warmed up, shifting deftly among the moods of the 20 songs.
It said something about the Americans' stiff start and Argentina's instant dominance that the opening goal only took three minutes and yet it felt like it was coming.
Dominic Rowan grows from a stiff start as Torvald into a wonderful drunk scene, a sexual encounter which, when interrupted, caused one audience member not merely to sigh but groan with pain, and an exceptionally funny imitation of the horrors of knitting: "There's something Chinese about it".
It was a stiff start to the Florida Swing.
Even the recently passed bill for a Medicare prescription drug benefit, which will ultimately relieve Medicaid of some of its drug expenditures, will impose stiff start-up costs on the states.
Moreover, Stiff started Britain's do-it-yourself independent label boom but was never comfortable with the anarchic philosophies or brash recordings favoured by most of its successors, such as Beggar's Banquet's 4AD, Daniel Miller's Mute, and Miles Copeland's Step Forward (the last of which moved quickly from punk to the pop-oriented sound of the Police).
The color code makes transparent the fact that the market dynamical state was not determined by the Index trend (positive or negative): The stiff state started in the midst of a decline in the Index and continued unchanged as the Index trend changed several times.
When you have stiff peaks, start to add the sugar – remove it from the oven and add 1 tbsp at a time, beating after each addition until you have a glossy, stiff meringue.
Stretching: When you've been laying in bed for a long time, your muscles can get stiff and start to ache.
This week, the Spanish government announced that any British residents of the country, of which there are an estimated 800,000 or so, would be required to declare any and all assets worth more than €50,000 being held outside the country or face stiff penalties starting at €10,000 and up.
The steering steadies and the stiff suspension starts making sense.
