1. She held up her hand stiffly.

2. 'Thank you,' she replied stiffly.

3. She spoke to me stiffly.

4. The key turned stiffly in the lock.

5. He got out of bed stiffly.

6. The soldiers stood stiffly to attention.

7. Moira sat stiffly upright in her straight-backed chair.

8. His manner was stiffly formal.

9. The three officials waved stiffly.

10. He climbed stiffly from the Volkswagen.

11. She roused herself stiffly from her chair.

12. She sat down stiffly on a chair by the wall, aware that they were looking at her.

13. He sat stiffly, with a pained expression on his face .

14. Jim stood up stiffly.

15. He bent down stiffly.

16. We rose, from chair or bed, slowly and stiffly.

17. She undressed and climbed stiffly into bed.

18. He arched back stiffly in the chair.

19. The flycatcher stands up more stiffly.

20. Stiffly, reluctantly, she rose to her feet and began to sweep up the litter of broken china.

21. She sat down rather stiffly on the grass, being careful to keep a safe distance between them.

22. If he ran, it ran too, moving stiffly, like a corpse.

23. He stands up stiffly and proposes a toast to their old friend.

24. He walked, slowly and stiffly, towards the ramp that led from the garden to the street.

25. "Why don't you borrow your sister's car?" said Cassandra stiffly.

26. "I don't think that it's anything to do with you, " he said stiffly.

27. Stacked on the cargo deck, they still fought, frozen inside their rubber bags, arms and legs stiffly askew.

28. She noted though that after this Felipe de Santis was prepared to acknowledge Mitch's presence although he was stiffly formal.

29. When the Reclusiarch passed back again, each initiate must hold out his middle finger, pointing stiffly forward from his fist.

30. I saw Kim Anh in her wedding dress, and the stiffly posed photographs.

1. She held up her hand stiffly.

2. He got out of bed stiffly.

3. His manner was stiffly formal.

4. The three officials waved stiffly.

31. He got up stiffly, finding a steaming coffee pot beside his four-poster.

32. I sent him a stiffly worded memo telling him exactly what I thought of that.

33. But like all armoured animals they have sacrificed flexibility for security and must now be content with a stiffly jointed existence.

34. Joe got out slowly, stiffly, and he straightened up and took a deep breath of the exhaust-tainted air.

35. He nods stiffly, then settles his chin down on his chest, scowling.

36. Miriam sat stiffly in her chair next to her husband, Raoul.

36. try its best to collect and make good sentences.

37. Stiffly, they walked out of the village into the surrounding darkness.

38. He comported himself so stiffly during cocktails that Jim Maier suspected the bishop might be feeling intimidated.

39. Larry, my stepfather, sits stiffly with a pained expression on his face.

40. Limbs caught and held stiffly in awkward attitudes jerked into life as if an electric current had been applied to them.

41. In contrast Farc released a video showing its freed guerrillas saluting stiffly as they were greeted by an honour guard of rebels.

42. Therefore he walked very stiffly and awkwardly, swinging his leg out sideways in order to force it to go forwards.

43. Her doll sits stiffly, pointed straight ahead at the fixtures that emerge from the wall.

44. That way, you can see if you clutch the lectern or keep your hands too stiffly at your side.

45. Shiona was seated on the sofa, her back to the window, leafing stiffly through a magazine.

46. Two guards, both armed with machine-pistols, stood stiffly to attention either side of him.

47. As it was he balked, both forefeet thrust stiffly in front of him, jarring me to the bone.

48. The neck may be held stiffly or tilted to one side owing to muscle spasm. 2.

49. I saw how he held his head, slightly stiffly, and how the very air around him seemed charged.

50. Waiters in the silver national costume of Luctia bowed stiffly as they placed dish after lavish dish in front of the delegates.

51. In the kitchen Mario sat with one leg stiffly in front of him resting on a chair.

52. Nurse smelt of toothpaste and disinfectant, and crackled when she moved because her clothes were so stiffly starched.

53. Now, at the Mirage, Ali stands and walks stiffly towards the picture windows overlooking Las Vegas.

54. The white shirt under the gray suit-jacket is stiffly starched; the tie is held in place by an alumnus tie-tack.

55. At work, she wears artificial legs and walks stiffly with a cane.

56. Mones held himself as stiffly as a nineteenth-century tragedian, and filled his lines with sentiment.

57. They walked slowly, led by the bagpipers, past an honor guard of law enforcement officers standing stiffly at attention.

58. She sat stiffly on a ladder-back chair in the kitchen doorway.

59. Sitting stiffly, shaking firmly, speaking crisply, and sip-ping a glass of ice water were professional.

60. Thwarted, he then embraced her stiffly before taking the baby in his arms under the watchful eye of his wife.

61. Instead of a grey flannel suit he now wears a rather improbable pair of designer jeans and a stiffly pressed polo shirt.

62. The girl lay stiffly, half sitting on top of her bed, a gaunt little scarecrow in patched and threadbare workhouse reach-me-downs.

63. Then he climbed the steps to his bedroom, stripping off his kilt, and lay down stiffly.

64. She had no memory of hearing the long peal of the doorbell, of moving stiffly across the hall to answer it.

65. When he distinguished Anna, he involuntarily frowned, nodded stiffly.

66. He looked at me very stiffly.

67. The money mechanism began to work stiffly and inaccurately.

68. She rose stiffly, jerkily from the window seat.

69. Just then the old man strode stiffly into the courtyard.

70. Finally its mouth gaped and its pink - white tongue shot out stiffly.

71. Suddenly, she felt her husband's hand close round hers. She smiled, stiffly.

72. His father turned, the wiry figure walking a little stiffly.

73. Then the figure moved. Stiffly and slowly, it came down the steps.

74. Lucy could feel his ears standing stiffly upright. She was terribly afraid.

75. The rule in costume was the frilly tutu, the short (), stiffly - projecting skirt worn by every ballerina.

76. She wore a tight black leather blazer over a black turtleneck stiffly in a ponytail.

77. Melanie noticed the woman's index finger was stiffly grained with chalk dust.

78. The spokesman for the chain said the Santa with his right arm stiffly upright toward the sky and holding a sack in his left hand upset some customers.

79. She just sat stiffly on the edge of the dark blue velvet-covered sofa, staring into space, unmovable.

80. The two of them just stood there rather stiffly and said nothing.

81. Bob , Jack and Hughie stood stiffly, hoping Frank would put up another fight.

82. I stood stiffly, the starlit sky shining oddly as the last traces of gold and purple faded into darkness, the clouds throwing streaks of paler hues over the heavens.

83. "It's no longer needed, comrade, " said Squealer stiffly. "Beasts of England was the song of the Rebellion.

84. Then sitting stiffly and looking at him she began to cry.

85. Hershey stood stiffly with hands on his hips . Color rose in his face.

86. The stiffly autobiographical result made it clear that his talent lay elsewhere.

87. Another Dictum. The Allies fired off stiffly worded protests to Moscow against the East German regime's "coldblooded killings."