How to Use rigidity in a Sentence

rigidity

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  • And the rigidity of the rules took some getting used to.
    — Sean Gregory/tokyo, Time, 7 Aug. 2021
  • Of these, sole rigidity seems to vary the most between spikes.
    — Cory Smith, Outside Online, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Much of this is attributed to the rigidity of a block grant.
    — Tara Golshan, Vox, 25 May 2018
  • That rigidity in the middle of the ship can cause problems.
    — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 26 July 2017
  • But for some, the rigidity of the inners will be jarring.
    — Samson McDougall, Health, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The rigidity of the heel makes these shoes difficult to take on or off hands-free.
    — Samson McDougall, Verywell Health, 2 Dec. 2024
  • View Photos The stiff tires also show up the lack of structural rigidity in the body.
    — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The struts add rigidity to the frame and help prevent swaying and wobbling.
    — Ryan D'agostino, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2019
  • Thus, in an effort to thwart the game’s rigidity, Conley’s five rules of lacrosse were born: 1.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 4 May 2023
  • That rigidity limits what AI has been able to do for us.
    — Tom Simonite, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Cho plays Spike with pep and rigidity while his lines are laden by fear and trauma.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The Big Ten’s biggest mistakes over the past nine months stemmed from its rigidity.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2020
  • This time, the leaders left rigidity to the activists and set about solving the problem.
    — Jan Bruce, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
  • It was taped live in front of an audience, but without the rigidity of a script.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Scarcity can drive rigidity, but now there are more hours to go around.
    — Gail Cornwall, Good Housekeeping, 2 June 2020
  • That sort of rigidity will not serve you well in business and can kill your career.
    — Amy Blaschka, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2021
  • The first was the rigidities of fascism, which divided the world into the vital and the decadent, the essential and the discardable, the us and the them.
    — Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • There's a rigidity to her and a suppressed nature that's not our normal view of Claire.
    — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Smith wondered, though, about the rigidity of the us and them polarity in Get Out.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 6 July 2018
  • The growsers have a very slight sine wave shape, four to five millimeters, but that adds an insane amount of rigidity.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 30 July 2020
  • Francis said, adding that such rigidity showed a lack of a healthy understanding of the Gospel.
    — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
  • The rigidity of permanence would be too much to bear, surely: who wants to be stuck in the same place forever?
    — Longreads, 26 Jan. 2021
  • This rigidity is one of a few reasons for critiques of the Kübler-Ross model, Galligher says.
    — Madeleine Burry, Health.com, 10 June 2021
  • To be alive is to try and find a way through the chaos of living, and Neptune Frost charts a path that tackles binary rigidity.
    — Vulture, 3 June 2022
  • Knicks Coach Tom Thibodeau, known for his rigidity, had to change something.
    — New York Times, 27 May 2021
  • The important constraints are rigidities in the country’s land and labour markets.
    — Vk Vijayakumar, Quartz India, 21 Nov. 2019
  • There’s a certain level of rigidity in the way that things can be presented.
    — Essence, 19 Jan. 2024
  • He felt oppressed by human structure, the routine and monotony of human life and the rigidity of time and schedules.
    — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 29 May 2022
  • One of the good things about the record industry collapsing is the rigidity of genres thing has collapsed with it.
    — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 7 Nov. 2019
  • With my Parkinson’s the main side effect is rigidity and stiffness.
    — Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 23 Nov. 2024

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