petrify

How To Use petrify In A Sentence

• 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.
• There was a piercing, petrifying, eldritch screech.
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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
• The idea of opening up my heart again was petrifying. Live and Let Love
• '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
• The incident in Bremen had been petrifying, not least because he had never seriously considered the prospect of being caught. THE LAST TEMPTATION
• Most of the world's so-called petrifying springs deposit a sintery encrustation on objects immersed in them.
• Such are popularly known as petrifying springs, although they merely incrust the objects and do not convert them into stone. The Elements of Geology
• 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.