How to Use rigidity in a Sentence
rigidity
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Rather, our rigidity around them is.
—Devonne Goode, Parents, 27 Aug. 2025
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Scarcity can drive rigidity, but now there are more hours to go around.
—Gail Cornwall, Good Housekeeping, 2 June 2020
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Of these, sole rigidity seems to vary the most between spikes.
—Cory Smith, Outside Online, 16 Apr. 2022
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The rigidity that had robbed her of movement began to ease off.
—Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
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That sort of rigidity will not serve you well in business and can kill your career.
—Amy Blaschka, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2021
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The rigidity of the heel makes these shoes difficult to take on or off hands-free.
—Samson McDougall, Verywell Health, 2 Dec. 2024
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Cho plays Spike with pep and rigidity while his lines are laden by fear and trauma.
—Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 19 Nov. 2021
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And rigidity and stiffness is three.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 31 Dec. 2025
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In the third stage, jerky movements become writhing and rigidity.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2025
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And there’s this rigidity forming, too, which is worth fighting against.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026
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It was taped live in front of an audience, but without the rigidity of a script.
—Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 19 Oct. 2017
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The struts add rigidity to the frame and help prevent swaying and wobbling.
—Ryan D'agostino, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2019
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The result is a boat that delivers high strength and rigidity, but with light weight.
—Howard Walker, Robb Report, 30 Dec. 2024
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The aluminum top plate adds structural rigidity, and the board has almost no flex.
—Sascha Brodsky, PC Magazine, 20 July 2025
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Lyons said the rigidity sometimes created stress in her own life, too.
—Lily Hautau, CNN Money, 21 Mar. 2026
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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
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Soft, oversize totes signaled a move toward ease over rigidity.
—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025
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There’s a certain level of rigidity in the way that things can be presented.
—Essence, 19 Jan. 2024
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Her life read a bit like a cautionary tale against the rigidities of radicalism.
—Hazlitt, 11 June 2025
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This aluminum gives the keyboard a nice rigidity that keeps it from flexing under stress.
—PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2025
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This move has helped reduce weight and increase overall rigidity.
—New Atlas, 7 Nov. 2025
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This time, the leaders left rigidity to the activists and set about solving the problem.
—Jan Bruce, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
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So the researchers first stripped the wood of lignin, the component that gives it color and rigidity.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 12 Apr. 2026
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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
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For a moment, you are irritated by the rigidity of the rules.
—Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2026
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The Big Ten’s biggest mistakes over the past nine months stemmed from its rigidity.
—Nathan Baird, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2020
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Birch was chosen for its strength, rigidity, and light grain, and the desk was designed for the owner who telecommutes.
—Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 10 Dec. 2024
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This system has drawn heavy criticism in the past for its rigidity and impact to mental health.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 2 May 2026
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With my Parkinson’s the main side effect is rigidity and stiffness.
—Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 23 Nov. 2024
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The important constraints are rigidities in the country’s land and labour markets.
—Vk Vijayakumar, Quartz India, 21 Nov. 2019
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