stiff as a board
Example Sentences
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Unmoving and stiff as a board, she appeared to be deceased.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 10, 2023
She was as stiff as a board and never once on the beat during that number, and no amount of professional dancers could hide that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2016
"Hopefully it's nothing serious but he's not quite sure – he'll either wake up and there'll be nothing there or he'll be as stiff as a board," said Moores.
From The Guardian ● May 16, 2012
Mirwais’s father, Mr. Haideri, was awoken by the 5 a.m. call to prayer at the Charahi Qambar camp on Jan. 15 and found his son stiff as a board.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2012
I was still sitting there like a marble statue of Distressa, Patron Saint of Dread and Dumbfoundedness: mouth and eyes wide open, arms and legs sticking out, and everything as stiff as a board.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
