Sentence examples for stiffener from inspiring English sources
noun
Anything added to something in order to stiffen it, such as a support beam, or starch for a collar.
This was something of a limb-loosener (well, stiffener, actually), and gave us an early opportunity to get lost at no great detriment.
It's also a fantastic stiffener.
Dr W. L. Hawley: A single stiffener maybe, this as feeling grotty?
The production had sumptuous period costumes by Jenny Tiramani, handstitched down to the last corset stiffener, which took him half an hour to struggle into every night.
I don't tend to sing and dance unless I'm a little bit inebriated, so I decided to have a little stiffener before I went in to calm myself down.
'Not having that stiffener to calm your nerves.
The Western European Union, set up in 1948, was a cold war spine-stiffener.
We took a fedora and used a little felt-stiffener spray to hold that curl in the brim.
This week foreign dignitaries and survivors gathered to mark the 65th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation by the Red Army in 1945.A polemical new documentary by Yoav Shamir, an Israeli film-maker, suggests that his country's authorities use visits to Auschwitz partly as spine-stiffeners to prepare youngsters for military service.
Welting, heels, and counters (heel stiffeners) may be plastic.
Alkali emulsions of shellac are used to make self-polishing waxes, stiffeners for felt hats, cements, and sealers.
