Sentence examples for stiffeners from inspiring English sources

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.

Care must be taken to provide built-in tolerance for some structural damage, resist lateral loading through stiffeners (diagonal sway bracing), and allow areas of the building to move somewhat independently.

Metal or wooden stiffeners sometimes are used with the plastic shell, although all-plastic hulls are now quite common.

In the early nineteen-forties, a brisk trade emerged between German death camps, such as Auschwitz, Majdanek, and Treblinka, and German felt and textile manufacturers who used the versatile fibre in the production of thread, rope, cloth, carpets, mattress stuffing, lining stiffeners for uniforms, socks for submarine crews, and felt insulators for the boots of railroad workers.

If stiffeners are exposed — a series of structural rings circling and reinforcing the tank — the vessel is uninsulated, generally operates in a warm climate, and often hauls flammables and combustibles.

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.

So truss yourself up, stretch yourself out and take a long hard hit of Deep Heat, as I guide you through my starting lineup of iconic nipple-stiffeners.

They come with 21-piece collars and brass collar-stiffeners.

The Western European Union, set up in 1948, was a cold war spine-stiffener.

This was something of a limb-loosener (well, stiffener, actually), and gave us an early opportunity to get lost at no great detriment.