Sentence examples for stiffening in from inspiring English sources

Jesse remembers stiffening in his old bandmate's embrace.

He kept seeing his sonless father again, stiffening in a bronze casket.

Loosening and then stiffening in tempo with the play's wayward fluctuations in tone, Ms. Mulgrew wonderfully embodies this ideal.

Slumping in frustration or stiffening in indignation, Ms. Martin's reactions to Bob's rapidly shifting moods seem instinctive, not professionally invoked.

Clay's stiffening in response to Lula's accusations indicates the level of fear that this country's historically murderous response to miscegenation can provoke in a black man.

The independent suspension (struts and springs with control links) is supple but firm, giving up a few inches of body lean in corners before stiffening in a muscular, shoulder-down stance.

WASHINGTON — With resistance to tougher gun laws stiffening in Congress, a visibly frustrated President Obama on Thursday implored lawmakers and the nation not to lose sight of the horrors of the school massacre in Newtown, Conn.

Existing concrete structures may require strengthening or stiffening in order to increase their structural performance.

More extensive analytical study on tension stiffening in concrete beams shows that tension stiffening in axial members is not quite the same as that in flexural members due to the curvature (Ng et al. 2010).

One method for indirectly incorporating tension stiffening in the analysis of concrete structures is to modify the steel stress strain curve (Ko et al. 2001).

This approach can be applied to ripples design of 2D materials in order to achieve stiffening in bending as required in specific applications.