Stiffly Sentence Examples

He turned and walked stiffly to his car.

She stood stiffly, waiting.

Lori marched out of the house stiffly without saying goodbye.

My wife walked stiffly beside the abductor.

She pushed away from the ground stiffly and rubbed at the sore muscles in her back while she surveyed the house.

Jonny sat on his bed stiffly.

Katie nodded stiffly, unable to speak.

The two sat stiffly, staring straight ahead.

She stiffly made her way out of the bedroll and limped to the bathroom.

He shut the door and strode stiffly to his truck, digging in his pocket for the keys.

Clara smiled warmly as she stiffly emerged from her car.

At Emesa the Palmyrenes were defeated in a stiffly contested battle.

He walked by her stiffly and heading down the hall.

She watched him climb stiffly into his wagon and knew a moment of sadness when she remembered that before long she would be leaving and she would never see him again.

While Paul was dressed in jeans and a golf shirt, brother Joseph—never "Joe"—sat stiffly in creased slacks and dress shirt.

She walked stiffly to the closet, deciding quickly on a pair of blue jeans and a light shirt with a collar that would hide most of her neck.

She threw back the robe and sat up stiffly.

He stayed his urge to unleash the hand cannons on them all and stood stiffly.

She climbed stiffly from the bench and went from window to window, studying the area around the cabin.

He was tall (the Yorkshiremen called him "Long Forster") and strongly though stiffly built, and, with his simple tastes and straightforward manners and methods, was a typical North-country figure.

While Paul was dressed in jeans and a golf shirt, brother Joseph—never "Joe"—sat stiffly in creased slacks and dress shirt.

The regimented North Korean military audiences listening stiffly to their great leader seem positively animated by comparison.

Great care was taken in the laundering and tying of his stiffly starched cravat.

In the middle of this slide a stiffly fitting brass disk is inserted, to which a small turn-table motion may be communicated by an attached arm, acted on by two fine opposing screws accessible to the astronomer; and by their means the " fixed web " may be rendered strictly parallel with the movable one.

Just then a commissariat soldier, a hospital orderly, came in from the next room, marching stiffly, and drew up in front of Rostov.

Though she blamed herself for it, she could not refrain from grumbling at and worrying Sonya, often pulling her up without reason, addressing her stiffly as "my dear," and using the formal "you" instead of the intimate "thou" in speaking to her.

Another time, general attention was attracted by a small brown dog, coming heaven knows whence, which trotted in a preoccupied manner in front of the ranks with tail stiffly erect till suddenly a shell fell close by, when it yelped, tucked its tail between its legs, and darted aside.

The poncho needs to fall softly around the body and not hang stiffly.