Stiff example sentences

Small producers in towns were often faced with stiff competition from imports of cheap machine-made goods from England, where industrialisation was more advanced than on the continent.And sitting opposite him I could feel his anguish, the mind buoyant with thoughts that came out in frozen phrases and sentences stiff as corpses.But the idea could not materialise due to stiff opposition from the United States.I was paralysed under water — stiff, rigid with fear.The idea of setting up of ITO, however, could not materialise due to stiff opposition from the United States.High concentration of SO2 leads to stiffness of flower buds which eventually fall off from plants.The leaves strain toward the glass small twigs stiff with exertion long-cramped boughs shuffling under the roof like newly discharged patients half-dazed, moving to the clinic doors.