Sentence examples for stiff way from inspiring English sources

The phrase "stiff way" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It can be used to describe someone's behavior or manner as rigid, formal, or lacking in flexibility. Example: Despite her usual relaxed demeanor, Mary walked into the meeting in a stiff way, causing her colleagues to wonder if something was wrong.

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It's based around jazz, but not necessarily jazz in that very straight, stiff way.

The traces of the paralyzing stroke he suffered two years ago are still visible in the stiff way he holds his right hand and shoulder, but otherwise Mr. Williams is in fine fettle, his diabetes gone, his hypertension tamed.

"Some Propositions Concerning the Lounge Lizards" is a stiff way to approach such a limber, erudite group of musical deviants — yet Moody writes with impressive warmth about the chief Lizard, John Lurie, and the band's bittersweet, luckless career has seldom been more fondly captured.

Evan suspects that one of his neighbors is an alien (due to his strange, stiff way of speaking and because he always seems to be watching him).

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The steering is stiff, the way fans of German cars like it.

There are hyper-detailed torture sequences and serial killings, and everyone's anatomy is kinda stiff and way overrendered with all kinds of awesome shading.

If you have towels that are already somewhat stiff, one way to soften them up is to throw a dryer-safe ball or two in the dryer with them.

The next day I was still scared, but in an achy, stiff-moving way, like muscles after too much exercise.

Not one to be confined by stiff Edwardian ways (or, for that matter, the rigidity of classical ballet), her strong character, Bourne writes in a program note, is inspired by Isadora Duncan.

The breeze looks fairly stiff, by the way, if not yet anywhere near the realms of problematic.

He set up in the shotgun, shushed the crowd, took the snap, then ran off the right side in his slightly ungainly way: stiff, upright, arms pumping more like chicken wings than pistons.

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