Sentence examples for was stiffen from inspiring English sources

She and the bird and the way I stood and watched, a sparrow, sometimes a goldfinch, knowing that if I moved my hand the bird would fly off the rail and the fact of knowing this, the possibility of my intercession, made me wonder if my mother would even notice that the bird was gone, but all I did was stiffen my posture, invisibly, and wait for something to happen.

By five, his body was stiffening.

His resolve, he says, was stiffened here.

"I told Coach it was stiffening up".

His resolve to fight the practice was stiffened following an uncomfortable row after a Remembrance Sunday.

The body was lowered by 0.79 inches and the suspension was stiffened.

This resolution was stiffened by events in South Africa after the 1948 election, which heralded the onset of apartheid.

The Forestry Commission was stiffened in its reluctance to sell its lease of the land that would have been used for the leisure centre.

Too much of the vibratory tissue under the epithelium had been removed, and much of what remained was stiffened with scar tissue.

That legislation was stiffened this week in an all-party committee.

It was stiffened before the twelfth flight, but that only partially cured the problem.