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How To Use ossify In A Sentence

• The joint between the incus and stapes is likewise a cartilagenous joint, with a tendency to ossify in older humans.
• The society, a professional organization of doctors and a few scientists, was self-contained and moribund, an ossifying Manhattan social club. The Emperor of All Maladies
• Once you ossify guidelines into regulations governing payment, you run a great risk of freezing health care advancement. He's Not an Economist, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• It should make interesting reading for those who think that the sole purpose of an Academy is to ossify a language and prevent any change. The Spanish Royal Academy
• On Thursday, an ossifying Tiger Woods posted a grim 77 in the opening round of the PGA Championship, a tournament he has won four times. The Yankees Can't Hide Their Wrinkles
• If we did this, our cities would stand still, ossify and die.
• The flat bones ossify directly from such fibrous tissue rather than from intermediary cartilage.
• The results of an osteoplastic periostitis are frequently met with in the bones of the foot, and are described by veterinary writers under such headings as 'Pedal Exostoses,' 'Ossifying Ostitis,' and 'Pedal Diseases of the Horse's Foot
• It reckons that rationing would ossify the farm industry.
• Without experiment (without what in some ways could be called "progress" in the arts), art would ossify into dead monuments we are to extoll for their putative greatness but that would not provoke the kind of experiential engagement Dewey thinks is art's ultimate validation. John Dewey's *Art as Experience*