stiff-limbed

As we all learned in preschool, Muppets are native to New York City, and once freely roamed (in a floppy, yet oddly stiff-limbed sort of way) the whole of the five boroughs.

Boing Boing 2009

Tom SpoonerTwickenham, Middlesex• Hank Ballard's instructions to do The Continental Walk are more suited to this stiff-limbed pensioner (Letters, 23 May): you just walk, walk, walk (eeyaah!)

Letters: Electricity pythons 2011

Figures distanced, isolated, backs turned or in profile, squatting, crouching, lying face down or flat on their back, stiff-limbed as dolls.

Gauguin: Maker of Myth Laura Cumming 2010

A blank look came into the popping eyes and the big man went stiff-limbed as an automaton.

Archive 2010-03-01 Johnny Pez 2010

A blank look came into the popping eyes and the big man went stiff-limbed as an automaton.

"Undersea Prisoner" by Harl Vincent, part 5 Johnny Pez 2010

He did an exaggerated quivering, stiff-limbed impression of an electric chair victim.

William S. And The Great Escape Zilpha Keatley Snyder 2009

He did an exaggerated quivering, stiff-limbed impression of an electric chair victim.

William S. And The Great Escape Zilpha Keatley Snyder 2009

He did an exaggerated quivering, stiff-limbed impression of an electric chair victim.

William S. And The Great Escape Zilpha Keatley Snyder 2009

When she'd got enough liquor in her, as she had gotten now (rather early in the day as had become her habit), she began to look and move stiff-limbed and prideful like her father, whom she had always called “an alkie” as if it were at worst a curiosity and perhaps an avocation deserving of some beribboned prize.

Gansevoort Ridge 2009

He did an exaggerated quivering, stiff-limbed impression of an electric chair victim.

William S. And The Great Escape Zilpha Keatley Snyder 2009