How To Use Petrify In A Sentence
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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
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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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slogans petrify our thinking
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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.
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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
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The chemical components used to artificially petrify wood can be found in natural settings around volcanoes and within sedimentary strata.
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To convert to a mineral substance ; petrify.
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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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Rational Review
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And that's kind of petrifying but also exhilarating.
Undefined
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I found the climb absolutely petrifying.
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Towards the end of the night I took to sporting a rather freaky mask and petrifying the remaining guests.
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As two business scholars observed, ‘Yesterday's winning formula ossifies into today's conventional wisdom before petrifying into tomorrow's tablets of stone.’
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I found the climb absolutely petrifying.
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The Greek heroes, on the other hand, can use the mirror to avoid being turned to stone as they battle the petrifying Medusa.
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So, to cut a long story short, we spent most of the day in that Sport Hall, most of it spent petrifying me by making me do all sorts of crazy acrobatics.
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Family describes 'petrifying' moments as tornado hit their Berwick home
Inform - Politics
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Our practice and our thought recognize infanticide in the archetypal mother, its desire to smother, dissolve, mourn, bewitch, poison, and petrify.
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Without thinking, outréblack squirrels inhabit upper Michigan and petrify the involute world.
Black Squirrel Poem
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There is far more to "petrifying" wood than just giving it "non-burning characteristics.
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The Wanderer," pitying the fortunes and miseries of the author, yet his ungovernable temper and depraved propensities, which led to his embruing his hands in blood, his ingratitude to his patrons and benefactors, (but chiefly to Pope,) and his degraded misemployment of talents which might have raised him to the capital of the proud column of intellect of that day, -- all conduce to petrify the tear of mingled mercy and compassion, which the misfortunes of such a being might otherwise demand.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829
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More typically, the finale vacillates in every possible direction: our gentleman looks out to sea, then starts to cry, but this turns to laughter, the final shot petrifying into a freeze-frame.
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Such are popularly known as petrifying springs, although they merely incrust the objects and do not convert them into stone.
The Elements of Geology
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Most of the world's so-called petrifying springs deposit a sintery encrustation on objects immersed in them.
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The incident in Bremen had been petrifying, not least because he had never seriously considered the prospect of being caught.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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'A reed shaken with the wind, 'and without substance or solidity to resist, may be placed in what is called a petrifying well, and, by the infiltration of stony substance into its structure, may be turned into a rigid mass, like a little bar of iron.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts
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The idea of opening up my heart again was petrifying.
Live and Let Love
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For 25 million years andesitic volcanic ashflows and mudflows were common, covering and petrifying forests: nearly 200 species of petrified plants have been found.
Yellowstone National Park, United States
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There was a piercing, petrifying, eldritch screech.
