Explore Stiffly through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like stiff or rigidly. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Stiffly in a sentence
Related words
Stiffly meaning
In a stiff manner.
Using Stiffly
- The main meaning on this page is: In a stiff manner.
- Useful related words include: stiff, rigidly, bolt.
- In the example corpus, stiffly often appears in combinations such as: stiffly and.
Context around Stiffly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 5 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stiffly
- In this selection, "stiffly" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, characters, nodded, sitting, shooting, struggled and unsure stand out and add context to how "stiffly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and nodded stiffly unsure what and clasp before stiffly being released. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stiffly" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stiffly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I grabbed my drink and nodded stiffly, unsure what to say. (11 words)
Action scenes are a joke, with characters stiffly shooting and lasers missing them. (13 words)
Lansbury's Marple was a crisp, intelligent woman who moved stiffly and spoke in clipped tones. (16 words)
In the more formal types the letters stand rather stiffly upright, often without the linking strokes, and are more uniform in size; in the more cursive they are apt to be packed closely together. (34 words)
He has stiffly struggled with the public business of politics (Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre continues to torment him at every available opportunity) while having to defend the deficits from 2015 to 2019. (33 words)
The images show Trump sitting at an empty desk with a phone to his ear, walking stiffly around the building, and standing stone-faced at a jovial-looking staff meeting. (30 words)
Example sentences (10)
The video shows the Queen backing away as the offending hand approaches, eventually finding its quarry for a brief clasp before stiffly being released.
Action scenes are a joke, with characters stiffly shooting and lasers missing them.
He has stiffly struggled with the public business of politics (Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre continues to torment him at every available opportunity) while having to defend the deficits from 2015 to 2019.
I grabbed my drink and nodded stiffly, unsure what to say.
Many of those complaints involved overpayments to government employees, which were exacerbated by stiffly interpreted federal tax laws.
Sanders was easily the least charismatic, hoisting his trousers by the waist, tugging at his socks, hunching over the lectern, sitting stiffly and awkwardly greeting questioners.
The images show Trump sitting at an empty desk with a phone to his ear, walking stiffly around the building, and standing stone-faced at a jovial-looking staff meeting.
In the more formal types the letters stand rather stiffly upright, often without the linking strokes, and are more uniform in size; in the more cursive they are apt to be packed closely together.
Lansbury's Marple was a crisp, intelligent woman who moved stiffly and spoke in clipped tones.
Roslin Institute, UK In late 2001, at the age of four, Dolly developed arthritis and began to walk stiffly.
Common combinations with stiffly
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: