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How To Use ossified In A Sentence

• Is that something you really want to see, that kind of ossified thinking in a bureaucratic organization like Homeland Security? CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2005
• I have a less ossified view of culture, one that sees it as not fixed in a person's or nation's history, but as a fluid, ongoing process.
• France, which prides itself on being a meritocracy, has slowly ossified into its default mode of hierarchy.
• Spadefoots are so-named for the large, keratinous metatarsal tubercles that are internally supported by a well-ossified prehallux, located on the outside edges of their feet.
• Years of easy success had ossified the company's thinking and it never faced up to the challenge of the new technology.
• The first indications of the bones and joints are circumscribed condensations of the mesoderm; these condensed parts become chondrified and finally ossified to form the bones of the skeleton. III. Syndesmology. 2. Development of the Joints
• The placoderms and chondrichthyans both show at least some capsular protuberance of the braincase, but the braincase is a single, undivided mass, whether or not ossified.
• There is also a process overhanging the glenoid cavity (g.) wherein the humerus articulates, which process is called coracoid (co.); it is ossified from two separate centres, and represents Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
• All rhinolophoids have an ossified first costal cartilage fused to the manubrium and first rib.
• The drawing style has completely ossified, too.