Examples of 'stiffen up' in a sentence

Meaning of "stiffen up"

stiffen up: To become tense, rigid, or inflexible in posture or demeanor. It often refers to a physical or emotional response to stress or fear
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  • To become rigid, tense or stiff.

How to use "stiffen up" in a sentence

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This can stiffen up everything in your body.
Little feller just needs to stiffen up.
You stiffen up like a calf as the slaughterer approaches.
I got to do this or the bullet holes in my butt stiffen up.
Makes a guy wanna stiffen up his thumb and use it.
I do not want your muscles to stiffen up.
Do not stiffen up your face.
Then we put it in the fridge to stiffen up.
Do not stiffen up on action films and instead make a horror film.
Their legs would stiffen up.
Stiffen up a little.
I have got to get this before they stiffen up too much.
Stiffen up a little so I can tell you are there.
This may help the baby relax and not stiffen up.
Otherwise, it would stiffen up from the seawater.

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Just by asking a lawyer, their shoulders stiffen up.
He will just stiffen up a lot more if he's left in his stall.
Before he starts to stiffen up.
If you stiffen up or try to catch yourself, you get hurt.
They do not stiffen up.
Which one of you geniuses can explain this? … little feller just needs to stiffen up.
Maybe some public exposure will stiffen up your lust again.
So… I stiffen up the shoulder and immediately I'm thinking this is gonna get crazy.
Next Magnets make a new soft metamaterial stiffen up in a flash.
If you stiffen up or treat people of different races unkindly, that 's racist.
It seems to feel like it's starting to stiffen up as well.
Above all, do not stiffen up and do not be nervous, because he 's nothing special.
By that time, she had begun to stiffen up.
Pete, do not stiffen up on me.
Try to keep moving, otherwise you will stiffen up.
Toyota added a rear-mounted X-Brace to stiffen up the rear end hence the name X-Runner.
Just some cramping . Their legs would stiffen up.
Toyota added a rear mounted X-Brace to stiffen up the rear end ( hence the name X-Runner ).
Keep your hands warm, Cold hands tend to hurt and stiffen up.
Does that feel good? Stiffen up a little.
They do not tense up when I touch them . They do not stiffen up.
Yeah, he was. Yeah, he would even stiffen up just at the sound of barking.
He was a fast runner throughout his teens, but at 19 his body started to stiffen up.
Well, I taught him how to stiffen up that arm.
Stiffen up that upper lip, what you cryin' about?
Ma 's arthritis made her hands stiffen up on her.
Doris, try to be natural . Do not stiffen up.
Joe, you are gonna stiffen up.
That 's enough small talk . It 's time to stiffen up.
It 's time to stiffen up.
In both cases, he tends to stiffen up.
He 's starting to stiffen up.
Come on, big man, you stiffen up.
Liars tend to, uh, stiffen up.

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