Explore Stiffing through 5 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Stiffing in a sentence
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Stiffing meaning
present participle and gerund of stiff
Using Stiffing
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of stiff
- In the example corpus, stiffing often appears in combinations such as: stiffing the.
Context around Stiffing
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stiffing
- In this selection, "stiffing" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, seond, construction and contractors stand out and add context to how "stiffing" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2017 by stiffing the state and a seond stiffing it to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stiffing" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stiffing
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Stiffing the pizza guy - hell, any service industry hump - is heartless and classless. (13 words)
Rahm fires in a dart of a seond, stiffing it to six feet before sinking the birdie putt to move to four-over. (23 words)
Trump stiffing construction workers, importing foreign workers at his properties, outsourcing manufacturing jobs to China, and trying to repeal Obamacare with no replacement sums up his commitment to the working class. (31 words)
Yovanovitch had also backed Kobolyev in a dispute pitting Naftogaz against Firtash, in which Kobolyev claimed Firtash's firms had illegally pocketed up to $2 billion since 2017 by stiffing the state-owned company on payments. (36 words)
Trump stiffing construction workers, importing foreign workers at his properties, outsourcing manufacturing jobs to China, and trying to repeal Obamacare with no replacement sums up his commitment to the working class. (31 words)
The many stories about stiffing contractors suggests that Trump doesn't see business in the both-sides-win, let's-get-to-yes way that most successful businessmen and dealmakers do. (31 words)
Example sentences (5)
Rahm fires in a dart of a seond, stiffing it to six feet before sinking the birdie putt to move to four-over.
Stiffing the pizza guy - hell, any service industry hump - is heartless and classless.
Trump stiffing construction workers, importing foreign workers at his properties, outsourcing manufacturing jobs to China, and trying to repeal Obamacare with no replacement sums up his commitment to the working class.
Yovanovitch had also backed Kobolyev in a dispute pitting Naftogaz against Firtash, in which Kobolyev claimed Firtash's firms had illegally pocketed up to $2 billion since 2017 by stiffing the state-owned company on payments.
The many stories about stiffing contractors suggests that Trump doesn't see business in the both-sides-win, let's-get-to-yes way that most successful businessmen and dealmakers do.
Common combinations with stiffing
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: