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A trilby is a hat with a quite narrow brim, and stiffened; it's often woven and patterned.

My father is nearing 80 and in the last couple of years his gait his stiffened and slowed noticeably.

The Ride on most Sport SUVs is stiffened up already to try to correct for the higher center of gravity.

The urge for reform increased, resolve stiffened, and eventually (after some time) change came about.

However, if it’s noticeable you probably should have it adjusted or the rear ride stiffened.

It would seem that has only stiffened the resolve of the Nordic workers and unions.

Industrial output was not really impacted, numbers and assessments from both sides show that, while moral of the bombed was actually stiffened.

Later revisions stiffened the spring a bit, but it was still a menace.

People were aggrieved that they were being bombed, and it stiffened their resistance and motivated them to work harder towards the war effort.

One popular homemade type had erasable pages made from linen stiffened with starch.

Now that penalties have been stiffened, I wouldn't care to be a test case.

Sometimes sections the FPC will be stiffened with pieces of FR4 to support larger components, but the SoC, DDR, etc is always SMTd to flat rigid PCB.

For example the guy looked up "stiffened".

> 4) Because people themselves have stiffened up and treat other people like enemies even in casual urban situations, and treat their kids like they're prisoners for their own "safety".

I loved the sentence: "We also found out that linen stiffened with rabbit glue strikes dogs as in irresistibly tasty rabbit-flavored chew toy, and that our Labrador retriever should not be left alone with our research project."

Generals, and later congressmen, worrying about what would happen if somebody dropped a wrench on such a tank were conducted to a test version of the "stainless steel balloon" that was stiffened by pressure and offered a choice of assorted mallets to see whether they could dent it.