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Meanings of grew stiff in English
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Usage of grew stiff in English
1
His posture grew stiff, and he started muttering and cursing to himself.
2
The ropes were frozen, and the sails grew stiff with hoar-frost.
3
But when the son had made a couple of efforts he grew stiff.
4
In an opposite corner, freshly washed linen grew stiff in the cold air.
5
I laid my hand on her arm and she grew stiff and still.
6
The pancake grew stiff and heavy in his mouth and was hard to swallow.
7
Fortescue shifted the theme with some adroitness, but the talk grew stiff and formal.
8
She winced and grew stiff at the sight of me and bowed her head.
9
Kazan caught a single whiff of the man-tainted air and his spine grew stiff.
10
His heart ceased beating, his body grew stiff and immovable.
11
His flexible fingers flashed and grew stiff by turns.
12
His limbs grew stiff as his cattle ran off.
13
His eyes grew stiff and giddy with looking before him, behind him, on all sides.
14
The fingers of Kate grew stiff, and trembled.
15
It ran dry; my wounds grew stiff.
16
So Mademoiselle Brun played to the wounded all through the long afternoons until her fingers grew stiff.
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