Sentence examples for were rigid from inspiring English sources
adjective
Stiff, rather than flexible.
Marriage customs varied but were rigid.
Rules were rigid and he was forbidden from going out at night.
The wires, which were rigid, were supported by grids of transparent fishing line.
When the paint dried, the shoes were rigid, causing her to walk stiffly.
They were rigid, but had a touch of subtlety built into the fabric.
For much of the cold war, the plans for using America's nuclear weapons were rigid and inflexible.
Atom model of state 1 from mTRPML1 amphipols sample was docked into cryo-EM map of state 2 and 3, and each domain of the atom model were rigid-body fitted into the two density map respectively in Chimera (Pettersen et al., 2004) to acquire the atom models of state 2 and 3.
The final models for the 40S and 60S subunits were rigid-body fitted into the maps for the remaining classes, and refined.
The others areas, whose functional relevance remain poorly understood, were rigid-body fit with minor adjustments from available crystal structures (Grotwinkel et al., 2014), and were not interpreted further here.
A budding yeast TBCC C-terminal domain model was built starting at residue 100 and ending at residue 267 using the program COOT, and the resulting models were rigid-body refined using the Phenix program suite (Emsley et al., 2010; Adams et al., 2010).
Hierarchies can be rigid.
