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
Esteban Trueba spent four months wrapped in bandages, stiff as a board from splints, patches, and hooks, in a dreadful torment of itching and immobility, and consumed by impatience.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
