Sentence examples for stiffening for from inspiring English sources

It is used as interlining or stiffening for tailored garments and millinery but is gradually being replaced for such purposes by materials of synthetic fibres.

Indeed we can observe how at the lowest frequencies the transfer function trends, for H = 0.25 m and H = 0.30 m (standard), are nearly superimposable, even if the tendency toward a stiffening, for thickness reduction, is clear.

In both scenarios the presence of hybrid fiber reinforcement is shown to provide an improvement to the phenomena of internal confinement and tension stiffening, for compression and tension loading respectively, which allow for a significantly improved post cracking response.

Our results show significant elastic stiffening for intermediate angles between 38.9° and 112.9°, as well as a minimum in tensile strength at a critical cone angle, due to the competition between weak van-der-Waals forces between layers and strong strengthening mechanisms from surface bonds introduced during thermal treatment.

This male is of Iranian heritage and his first reported possible seizure occurred during the neonatal period, with generalized stiffening for less than 20 seconds, with spontaneous resolution.

In four days I was down to 103, but my legs continued to swell and stiffen for more than two months.

It hit her between the shoulder blades; she stiffened for a moment and then went on talking as though nothing had happened.

Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer has argued that the cap on profits from reselling tickets should be lifted but that the penalties should be stiffened for bribing stadium employees, producers, performers and venue owners.

But Hull's resistance stiffened for the remainder of the first half, and they even created a chance for Aluko, though their striker ballooned his effort wide.

With 150 to 200 job hunters precertified as fundable coming onto the tight academic market each year, the competition for faculty posts will stiffen for applicants without a Pathway to Independence or another major award.

The aluminum Elise does not need much force to move it, as it weighs only 1,700 lbs. in Europe, though the weight should change when the car is stiffened for America.