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How to use rigid in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun

Rigid means stiff, rather than flexible. Example: “Despite arguments to the contrary, she remained rigid in her stand.”

Examples of rigid by meaning

adjectiveFixed, rather than moving.

  • A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys.2011, David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, Penguin Books, page 5

adjectiveUncompromising.

  • Despite arguments to the contrary, she remained rigid in her stand.

More sentences with rigid

  • She felt oppressed by the rigid atmosphere of the office.From the entry oppressed
  • Nonrigids are cheap and easy to build, store, and transport, but their lack of structural reinforcement limits them to smaller sizes and lower speeds than rigids or semirigids.From the entry nonrigid
  • In essence, a furcula is a long, rigid stick, held underneath the body at high tension.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 215. From the entry furcula
  • They took it for granted that the rigid soleplate was as true as the keel beneath it.2022, Richard McKenna, The Sand Pebbles. From the entry soleplate
  • But the soleplate was not rigid and the keel was not true.2022, Richard McKenna, The Sand Pebbles. From the entry soleplate
  • You needn't be rigid; some stretching of the phrase is absolutely allowable for the sake of meaning.2019, Joseph Church, Rock in the Musical Theatre, page 173. From the entry in the pocket
  • Retortable trays have a semi-rigid or rigid boy and a sealable flexible lid.2018, Dennis R. Heldman, Daryl B. Lund, Cristina Sabliov, Handbook of Food Engineering, page 1088. From the entry retortable
  • In so doing, she tries to subdivide the domestic home and overcode their relationship with rigid divisions.2015, Bridget Roussell Cowlishaw, Masculinity in Breaking Bad: Critical Perspectives, →ISBN, page 177. From the entry overcode
  • Throscids resemble very small and stout click beetles (Elateridae) with rigid bodies.2014, Arthur V. Evans, Beetles of Eastern North America. From the entry throscid
  • Her spine went rigid, as if he'd used electrostim on her rather than just his hand.2012, Cherise Sinclair, To Command and Collar, San Francisco, C.A.: Loose Id, →ISBN, page 152. From the entry electrostim
  • Traditional haiku have many rigid rules but modern haiku, sometimes referred to as pseudohaiku, are very flexible.2010, Sheila Vijayan, Just Three Lines, page v. From the entry pseudohaiku
  • If the sight of a very long word makes you rigid with terror, look away now.2008 January 10, “Scared of this? You must be lutraphobic”, in The Daily Mail, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2021. From the entry hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
  • "I'm having a funny feeling," he confided, lying rigid on our bed like a felled tree.2007 February 3, Jemima Lewis, “Jemima Lewis: Why British men make good husbands”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media…. From the entry uxoriousness
  • FBI Assistant Director Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) lies rigid on a hospital bed.2005, Daniel Dinello, Technophobia!: Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology. From the entry Pileggi
  • In practice, however, the line between heterosocial and heterosexual relationships is rarely seen as rigid and impenetrable.2003, Barbara J. Bank, Contradictions in Women's Education, →ISBN, page 111. From the entry homosocial
  • Such a basket is very rigid and resistant to mechanical damage.2000, John L. Howland, The Surprising Archaea: Discovering Another Domain of Life, page 70. From the entry cell wall
  • Sacroiliac, lumbosacral, cervicothoracolumbosacral, and thoracolumbosacral orthoses may be used in rigid or flexible forms.1998, Alan M. Levine, Spine Trauma, W B Saunders Company, →ISBN. From the entry cervicothoracolumbosacral
  • The imagination tends to bleaken in adult life, and rigid categories may reduce perceptual sensitivity.1997, Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard, Mutative Metaphors in Psychotherapy: The Aeolian Mode, page 133. From the entry bleaken
  • The Roman began to throat his rigid flagpole of a mancock, making groaning noises.1995, Kyle Stone, Hot bauds: a selection of steamy BBS writings, Badboy. From the entry throat
  • Here we asked whether the affordance of rigid and nonrigid surfaces was detected with respect to locomotion.1994, E. J. Gibson, G. Riccio, M. A. Schmuckler, T. A. Stoffregen, D. Rosenberg, J. Taormina, “Detection of the traversability of surfaces…. From the entry traversability
  • Medical Scale Co. offers both rigid weighboard and stretcher style scales to weigh your bedridden patients.1992, Nursing Homes: Long Term Care Management, volume 41, page 12. From the entry weighboard
  • Blank sightless eyes closed speechless mouth destined eternally to rigid frigidity (frigor mortis).1991, Ailbhe Smyth, “The Floozie in the Jacuzzi”, in Feminist Studies, volume 17, number 1. From the entry unassailably
  • They are buried under a plethora of symbols and rendered inanimate by severe and rigid stylization.1979, Burr Cartwright Brundage, “The Quality of the Numinous”, in The Fifth Sun: Aztec Gods, Aztec World (Texas Pan American Series), 1st…. From the entry familial
  • The rachiometer consists of a rigid vertical metal rod one inch in square dimensions.1976, Joseph Janse, Principles and practice of chiropractic, page 64. From the entry rachiometer
  • Namakiers represent large, recumbent sheath folds underlain and flanked by rigid bedrock and overlain by air.1970, University of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology (contributor), Report of Investigations - Issues 142-146, page 18. From the entry namakier
  • The Greek choral ode is obligated to preserve all but mathematical balance of rigid quantitative responsion.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “I. Introduction”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 12. From the entry responsion
  • I stood rigid, spellbound, watching the white wake of the torpedo.1918, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Land that Time Forgot, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008. From the entry torpedo
  • Her limbs were rigid, her eyes glassy; what had Jerry been doing?1915, Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age. From the entry deadest
  • Stem rigid, emitting near the floral leaves a spiciferous branch with coriaceous leaves.1904, John Bell Hatcher, Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia. From the entry spiciferous
  • A world without rigid temporal boundaries gave some a rare chance to relax and regroup after many years of busyness.2016, Benjamin H. Snyder, The Disrupted Workplace […] , Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 144. From the entry busyness
  • The traveling solutions provide arguments that a spin-polarized current will cause rigid motion of a skyrmion or a skyrmionium..2015, Stavros Komineas, Nikos Papanicolaou, “Skyrmion dynamics in chiral ferromagnets under spin-transfer torque”, in arXiv. From the entry skyrmionium
  • Percussives are articulations where two rigid or semirigid articulators are struck against each other to produce a short, sharp sound.2014, Martin J. Ball, Nicole Muller, Phonetics for Communication Disorders, Psychology Press, →ISBN. From the entry percussive
  • By multiplying interpretive registers, however, Baudelaire's text short-circuits the desire for identification as well as erodes any rigid allegorical mapping.2014, Zahi Zalloua, Reading Unruly, page 172. From the entry short circuit
  • He ceased his banging, and in the spy hole she saw him, fisheyed, standing rigid, hands behind his back.2014, Olen Steinhauer, The Cairo Affair, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 341. From the entry fisheyed
  • The steel tonlets are rigid, not overlapping and movable.2013, Wolfgang Bruhn, Max Tilke, A Pictorial History of Costume From Ancient Times to the Nineteenth Century: With Over 1900 Illustrated…. From the entry tonlet
  • These neckrings would have been difficult to put on and take off, as they’re entirely rigid and 1cm in diameter thickness.2013, Mary-Ann Ochota, Britain’s Secret Treasures, Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN. From the entry neckring
  • They unwittingly lock themselves and their companies into a rigid bureaucratic way of dealing with rules, regulations, and compliance matters.2011, Hillel Glazer, “The Man versus the Money”, in High Performance Operations: Leverage Compliance to Lower Costs, Increase Profits, and…. From the entry paint oneself into a corner
  • After a stressful event, the histrionic patient often manifests swings from rigid overcontrol to uncontrolled intrusions and emotional repetition.2011, Mardi Jon Horowitz, Stress Response Syndromes. From the entry overcontrol

Meaning of rigid

  1. adjective Stiff, rather than flexible.
  2. adjective Having inflexible thoughts, opinions, or beliefs.
  3. adjective Fixed, rather than moving.

Full definition of rigid

Questions about rigid in a sentence

How do you use rigid in a sentence?
Rigid is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Despite arguments to the contrary, she remained rigid in her stand.”
What is a short sentence with rigid?
“The steel tonlets are rigid, not overlapping and movable.”
What does rigid mean?
Rigid means stiff, rather than flexible.

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