Stiffening in a sentence

Leeds tried desperately to hold off the Blue Devil offense in the fourth quarter, allowing them to reach the Leeds’ goal line twice before stiffening to hold them to a field goal and on downs.

The Biden administration has said that is misinformation and has warned that it is stiffening penalties for illegal entry while urging migrants to use expanded legal pathways instead.

The infant had also been arching her back and stiffening up every time her mum had tried to place her in her pram or change her nappy - which are symptoms of meningitis.

The work will start with a 3D laser map scan of the ship's structure and the removal of the superstructure and teak decks to allow underdeck stiffening.

According to the hospice nurse, rigor mortis, which is the stiffening of the body, usually begins within one to two hours after death, before intensifying and then easing over the following 24 to 30 hours.

BMW says it managed to get the M6 Competition Edition to deliver lithe, balanced, and direct handling by stiffening suspension components like springs, dampers, and anti-roll bars to reduce body roll and enhance steering precision.

Murillo was diagnosed as a baby with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a type of epilepsy with multiple types of seizures that cause stiffening and dropping of the head and limbs.

Novo Nordisk said it plans to start a second Phase 2 test of the lead Cardior drug in patients with cardiac hypertrophy, a condition that leads to thickening and stiffening of heart muscle walls, which affects the organ’s ability to pump blood.

The person under its effect would experience their arms snapping to their sides, their legs stiffening dead straight, and their petrified body collapsing as they were left completely immobilized.

The stiffening of the breeze or a cloud covering the sun was all it took to awaken me.

Stiffening arteries are a normal part of aging, but this makes the heart work harder by forcing it to pump blood through narrow vessels less capable of enlarging to allow for better blood flow, the study authors said in background notes.

If you go to Giant Swan, you can’t stay like this!” she laughs, stiffening her arms by her sides.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Maryland said Ruiz died from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, which the Mayo Clinic describes as a thickening and stiffening of blood vessels.

In addition, across the stages of menopause, arterial stiffening and vascular dysfunction were associated with more frequent and severe menopause symptoms and a lower quality of life.

It also offers the additional benefits of lowering blood pressure and arterial stiffness – thickening and stiffening of the arterial wall – fat loss, improved lipid profiles, and reduced risk of osteoporosis, the findings showed.

At the end of his space walk, the suit stiffening caused a more serious problem: Leonov had to re-enter the capsule through the inflatable cloth airlock, convert in diameter and convert long.

By the 19th, they had to abandon their efforts due to progressively stiffening resistance and started to retreat southward along the river with over 200 wounded.

Copp, pp. 55–56 On the western edge of the Canadian sector, the advance of the 7th Brigade had stalled in the face of stiffening resistance in St. Croix and Banville, throwing the right flank of the assault off-schedule.

He believed that the weight per foot of the span and the cables would provide enough stiffness so that the bridge would not need any stiffening trusses.

In stiffening the resolve of those determined to resist Hitler the battle was an important turning point in the conflict.