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370 examples of Stiff in a sentence

And I can hold my arm in a particular joint configuration either very stiff or very relaxed.
The legs were swollen and the knees were stiff, so he needed a long preparation.
Recent proposals for supervised injection sites in cities like Seattle, Baltimore and New York have been met with stiff opposition: opposition that goes against everything we know about addiction.
The water's stiff.
And that's because we tend to think of skeletons as stiff lever systems that produce speed or power.
At one end, the basilar membrane is stiff, vibrating only in response to short wavelength, high-frequency sounds.
And it's easy to notice that nature uses soft material frequently and stiff material sparingly.
And what makes a robot soft is first of all its compliant body, which is made of materials or structures that can undergo very large deformations, so no more rigid links, and secondly, to move them, we use what we call distributed actuation, so we have to control continuously the shape of this very deformable body, which has the effect of having a lot of links and joints, but we don't have any stiff structure at all.
So you can imagine that building a soft robot is a very different process than stiff robotics, where you have links, gears, screws that you must combine in a very defined way.
They're tuned such that they easily collapse in one direction to pull the leg out from debris, but they're stiff in the other direction so they capture disparities in the surface.
Imagine a future where clothing is stiff and soft where you need it, when you need it, for optimal support and flexibility, without ever causing discomfort.
And we've discovered optimality is: where the body is stiff, the synthetic skin should be soft, where the body is soft, the synthetic skin is stiff, and this mirroring occurs across all tissue compliances.
Then the button's pushed, a voltage is applied, and it becomes stiff as a board.
This exoskeleton becomes stiff and soft in just the right areas of the running cycle, to protect the biological joints from high impacts and degradation.
Another vocal development during puberty occurs when the homogenous tissue covering the folds specializes into three distinct functional layers: a central muscle, a layer of stiff collagen wrapped in stretchy elastin fibers, and an outer layer of mucus membrane.
And if you measure very, very carefully with a stiff arm and a straight edge, you'll see that those two shapes are exactly the same size.
All except for one spot, that stayed stiff and painful for weeks after the other things had gotten better.
This helmet combines stiff and soft materials in 20-micron resolution.
Stiff legs, long stance, These aren't Parkinsonian movements, Parkinson's patients take short, shuffling steps, and the posture's all wrong.
Patients who suffer degeneration from this region, something called spino-cerebellar ataxia, show a lack of coordination that results in stiff legs, wide stance, and a lumbering walk.
And I feel stiff and delirious and confused most of the time.
She was stiff, and her little, lifeless hand was curled into itself.
It's called the falx, and it runs from the front of your head all the way to the back of your head, and it's quite stiff.
We have stiff competition and we need to motivate and it's all being done.
Human technologies have tended to be large, flat, with right angles, stiff, made of metal.
For example, here's a leg: the clear part is stiff, the white part is compliant, and you don't need any axles there or anything.
And most of us are scared stiff at the prospect.
Now notice, he thinks robots have to be a bit stiff.
They're very, very stiff.
Or what if I focused more on the fact that the book is a classic and used more conventional lettering, making everything look a little more stiff and serious, like in an encyclopedia or old books?
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