His muscles may have wilted and his joints stiffened, but his mind was deeper and more active.

Although it may be more comfortable now to avoid moving painful joints, in the long run, this can cause joints to stiffen.

Their joints and muscles were stiffening, their brains were no longer quick to learn new adjustments, their fervour was evaporating.

Her joints were stiffening with dampness; she knew she wouldn't sleep well.

In reality, he was a forty-nine-year-old man whose joints were stiffening in the subzero air that blasted its way through his flight suit.

Taken to extremes, muscles will waste, joints will stiffen and bones will fracture more easily.

But whenever any of us are taken away our joints at once stiffen, and we can only stand straight and look pretty.

In the past its knees had been broken and its joints stiffened for ever, by drunken-mad riders who had hired him from the stables.

His skin had shrunk, or his skull grown, and his joints had stiffened.

Gentle's joints were already stiffening.