"stiff" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

stiff adjetivo

stiff + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 122

stiff competition • stiff resistance • stiff penalty • stiff neck • stiff opposition • stiff lip • stiff breeze • stiff drink • stiff wind • ...

verbo + stiff

Kolokacji: 13

feel stiff • go stiff • stand stiff • grow stiff • look stiff • ...

colocaciones frecuentes

Kolokacji: 4

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 3

(1) feel, look, sound, lie, hold, ...

Kolokacji: 6

1. feel stiff = poczuj się sztywny feel stiff

2. look stiff = wyglądaj sztywny look stiff

3. sound stiff = umarlak dźwięku sound stiff

4. lie stiff = kłamać sztywny lie stiff

5. hold stiff = trzymać sztywny hold stiff

6. hang stiff = zawieszać sztywny hang stiff

A purple tunic from Chin hung stiff with argent embroidery, cinched by an acid-green velvet sash.
His eyes were glazed and his lips worked tremulously, while one arm hung stiff at his side, as though rendered almost helpless by recent injury.
He could fight it only by turning aside into a shop; it was another butcher's shop; he himself hung naked and stiff on a hook, white, and pink-trottered.
At the corners of his mouth, the barbels hung stiff and still; the translator's voice was too controlled, full of unvoiced pain.
The British future married the British past in a moment when union flags hung stiff as shields on Regent Street.
His limbs hung stiff and awkward from his body, his eyes started bloodshot from their sockets, and there was a gray, pasty look to his face.
Curtains hung stiff with grime, the rug gave off little puffs of dust at each footstep, and the furniture stood about in no particular order, appearing to have been shoved here and there for a passing purpose and never replaced.
They clung together, gasping, Kennard with fear and relief and Larry with mingled, fright and pain; something had snapped in the injured shoulder and his arm hung stiff and immovable at his side, sending shudders of agony down his side when he as much as moved a finger.
The address I had for the Ceremony of Moloch was in North Cambridge in a neighborhood of brown and gray threedecker apartment buildings with open porches across the back of each floor where laundry hung stiff in the cold.
His hands hung stiff at his sides; water and slime were dripping from them.

(2) go, grow, freeze, become

Kolokacji: 4

(3) stand, sit, lay

Kolokacji: 3

adverbio + stiff

Kolokacji: 13

pretty stiff • somewhat stiff • slightly stiff • fairly stiff • increasingly stiff • ...

stiff + preposición

Kolokacji: 6

stiff with • stiff in • stiff from • stiff for • stiff on • ...

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