petrify

How To Use petrify In A Sentence

• It was formerly believed that waters replete with calcareous earth, such as incrust the inside of tea-kettles, or are laid to petrify moss, were liable to produce or to increase the stone in the bladder. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
• Chennel Jagesur, a second year Actuarial Science student who had her lectures disrupted, described their actions as "petrifying". ANC Daily News Briefing
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• He could feel the light crisping his skin, in but a few moments he would petrify like aged wood and splinter across the floor.
• Of course, William would come home as usual; and yet, though the sound of his footstep was the one sound she had listened for all day, Dora would immediately begin to petrify again, and when he would approach her with open arms, asking her to forgive and forget the morning, she would demur just long enough to set him alight again. Prose Fancies
• The chemical components used to artificially petrify wood can be found in natural settings around volcanoes and within sedimentary strata.
• To convert to a mineral substance ; petrify.
• He halted and watched the young ones "petrifying" and disappearing on the ground before his eyes, and listening to the anxious calls of the old ones hidden in the thickets. Chapter VIII
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• And that's kind of petrifying but also exhilarating. Undefined