Sentence examples for stiff up from inspiring English sources

No one over the age of 12 or outside the offices of Viz has ever made so much capital from the words "big", "hard" "stiff", "up" and "balls".

Better to show a stiff up lip and get on with fixing things.

"It was so great just having him on set, even for little things like saying, 'I feel like when I walk maybe I should be a little stiff up top.' He was like, 'Oh yeah, show me.

This result suggests that SiO2-Al2O3 glasses with higher proportions of Al ions with large oxygen coordination numbers (5 and 6) become elastically stiffer up to 40 GPa, depending on the Al2O3 content, but then soften above 40 GPa.

The first thirty minutes of the fire-side chat went well, not splendid, just okay because I was so nervous and intimidated, perhaps by his lack of facial feedback, that I stiffed up and reserved my usual playful nature.

Should the three men be found guilty, they would face potentially stiff penalties: up to five years in prison for the two Kazakhs, eight years for Mr. Phillipos and up to $250,000 fines for each of the three.

"He looked so occluded and stiff cinched up in that vest," he said.

Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski Allen Lane £20, pp275 With Agatha Christie, you know you're off and running when the first stiff turns up in the library, harbinger of a terrible body count.

And data regulators there also issue stiff fines — up to 250,000 euro ($327,250).

The sound of the bell makes the ears of every working stiff perk up, because when that bell tolls for the 12th time, it can only mean one thing: lunch.

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.