Stiffs is an English word. Below you'll find 8 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Stiffs in a sentence
Related words
Stiffs meaning
plural of stiff
Using Stiffs
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of stiff
- In the example corpus, stiffs often appears in combinations such as: working stiffs, the stiffs.
Context around Stiffs
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stiffs
- In this selection, "stiffs" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, working, rough, putting, working and tours stand out and add context to how "stiffs" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include for the stiffs and sticking the stiffs in barrels. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stiffs" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stiffs
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Sticking the stiffs in barrels of booze and shipping them. (10 words)
I spent most of the time with United playing for the 'stiffs'. (12 words)
They can join us working stiffs putting in 60-70 hours a week for peanuts. (15 words)
According to the synopsis from FOX, “Dealing with the demands and egos of three high-IQ children would be tricky for any parent, but it’s especially hazardous for two working stiffs who barely got through high school. (38 words)
The Stiffs Tours Robinson and Riviera had arranged package tours ‒ such as the 1975 Naughty Rhythms tour ‒ for acts they managed before forming Stiff. (24 words)
He hacks it out the rough, stiffs a beautiful iron from 58 yards to within eight feet and will have that for par. (23 words)
Example sentences (8)
I spent most of the time with United playing for the 'stiffs'.
According to the synopsis from FOX, “Dealing with the demands and egos of three high-IQ children would be tricky for any parent, but it’s especially hazardous for two working stiffs who barely got through high school.
Sticking the stiffs in barrels of booze and shipping them.
They can join us working stiffs putting in 60-70 hours a week for peanuts.
He hacks it out the rough, stiffs a beautiful iron from 58 yards to within eight feet and will have that for par.
It’s sort of ego driven to think we working stiffs or average joes are the target audience for anything other than television.
Stiffs working in the Windsor and Detroit salt mines crapped themselves every body else in tornado alley is ok.
The Stiffs Tours Robinson and Riviera had arranged package tours ‒ such as the 1975 Naughty Rhythms tour ‒ for acts they managed before forming Stiff.
Common combinations with stiffs
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: