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    Use "petrify" in a sentence

    petrify example sentences

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    1. ' Alexis pointed to the outhouse and held open the door and ushered me inside but just as I crossed the threshold, the most diabolical screech had me petrified with shock and sent Charon himself running screaming back to Hades


    2. Petrified and confused, I sobbed and tears streamed down my face


    3. The journey has given her time to prepare herself for seeing Billy, but like her former husband she is petrified by what she sees happening to Bex


    4. gaped at her, as though petrified


    5. To dream that you have been petrified suggests that you are in a rut


    6. He looked around, almost as though he were petrified with fear


    7. Soon I discovered he was petrified of storms


    8. the bow of the Milo, she was petrified and was afraid not only for herself, but also for Addie and Fred


    9. I was petrified of what was laying in the box, after the first time that I saw Grandpa pull out a snake and toss it outside (look — I wasn’t a dumb kid… if some lunatic chicken and secret snake called that nesting box home, then I just couldn’t find a logical or rational reason for me to put my fragile little fingers inside of it


    10. The young sow finally turned and fled, running mindlessly over the hard ground, petrified that one of the monsters would see her before she could get away

    11. The horse was petrified of the Snaggles and decided the Badgers posed a lesser threat


    12. instance X is petrified of spiders as he was bitten by a spider when


    13. Still she stood as petrified


    14. She let go of the things, which fell to the ground with a muffled sound, and stood as petrified


    15. He stood as petrified and watched over the open land


    16. She merely sat as petrified and stared to the east


    17. Calras stood as if petrified and stared at his children


    18. They only looked once at the king’s petrified, white face, then they turned to Laino and in whisper, asked about Elior


    19. She understood it all in one second and stood petrified as all others around her


    20. petrified eyes switching between the three as he began to quiver

    21. cuddled him, giving what soothing she could muster, but she was petrified


    22. petrified eyes in her mind and could almost hear the woman’s pleading


    23. Inside, Abel was laying on the floor petrified


    24. As soon as the titans arrived with Abel in the Land of the Emerald Forest, in the Realm of Water, Eliana came to the help of the petrified one


    25. Babies were even petrified while sucking the milk from their mother’s breasts


    26. Iso instantly petrified and fell on the ground


    27. As she petrified, the gorgon then raised his leg and stomped the statue breaking it into a multitude of pieces


    28. He was once attacked by a gorgon and petrified by it


    29. Titans which have been petrified could finally open their eyes and they could speak, they could lift their hands and they could walk


    30. Eleven rockets and missiles are coming in all directions directly at me at 1000-1500 mph,’ Jaden says in a petrified voice

    31. Jaden notices the pilot is petrified, as the nanoscanner gets very close


    32. He is petrified since he can’t see what exactly is going on


    33. was just so completely petrified by the idea that no one would believe


    34. The wood within a meter of the flame chamber and the chimney above has been petrified


    35. The wood within three feet of the flame chamber and the chimney above has been petrified


    36. was petrified; as anyone would be really, standing in front of a


    37. I was petrified, and slumped over,


    38. silence; he was gasping, inflexible, petrified


    39. rolling boulders for the same petrified instant, came to the same


    40. The long term seductions and betrayal of confidence jobs were the worst, when she had to spend months turning her mark into her lover and the inevitable betrayal that followed often petrified Tress

    41. But most people are petrified by fear when faced with the decision to change their lives dramatically


    42. Despite his brave words, he was still petrified of Ma and Jed, not to mention Boglehob and the other scarecrows


    43. Petrified I stayed before the door but not Mariana, making her way between the bodies, walked up to where the unhappy bird was lying, untied the knot of her scarf and wrapped it around the bird with the same care as if it was asleep instead of deceased


    44. Bravely, I wiggled the poor thing around; petrified it was going to pop out again


    45. Whatever the cause, all that remained of the desert they once called home were endless tails of gray shale littered with large, broken bones petrified to stone


    46. If she had looked frightened climbing out of the boat, now she was petrified


    47. It was of Richard wielding a heavy-looking ornamental vase above his petrified face


    48. It felt like petrified bone; but he could not imagine petrified substance being found in the locality in such abundance as to be used so lavishly


    49. Blood poured out of the wound as Silva tried to stand up but instead he slipped onto the floor and held his hands to his neck and stared at Carlos with wide, petrified eyes


    50. I was petrified as he approached in a couple of long easy strides














































    1. Nicole was staring at him with a cold, icy gaze fit to petrify a man


    2. Aria then said they can now control whom to petrify and whom to not


    3. It can still petrify you


    4. As Luisa said, they began to petrify and with that, I finally lost their essence


    5. “All three wishes must not conflict with one another, or the dead who walked the earth will take your life, petrify your remains, and keep you locked in a purgatory just short of hell for trying to take that which is not yours


    1. Ursempyre turned to look at the Patriarch with a petrifying gaze, but said nothing while the Patriarch did not turn into stone and continued in his own voice:


    2. "That's a petrifying ideology


    3. There was a flash of lightning that briefly illuminated the petrifying figure and sent another round of gasps through the room at the sight of 326


    4. So that it's not so dreadful of me to like them best, to prefer their company, their silent teaching, although you will I know lecture me and perhaps tell me I am petrifying into a mere thing myself Well, it is only fair that you should lecture me, who so often lecture you


    5. It was bewildering and petrifying


    6. despairing cry ripped into the silence and lasted but for a petrifying moment


    7. Heather Gemmen, 33, in her book Startling Beauty, tells of her horrific, filthy, petrifying ordeal at being savagely raped in the dark with a knife at her neck by an intruder in her own bed, while her husband was out at an evening meeting


    8. The thought of the pain was petrifying me


    9. Monogamy is not something that suddenly and finally takes shape, a petrifying of emotion that for a season in courtship flourishes


    10. Dantes was on the way he desired to follow, and was moving towards the end he wished to achieve; his heart was in a fair way of petrifying in his bosom

    11. One of the new hands - a man with a red tie - said that they would look well, after having been soaked for a month or two in petrifying liquid, chained up in the Chamber of Horrors with labels round their necks - `Specimens of Liberal and Conservative upholders of the Capitalist System, 20 century'


    12. Sometimes the people in whose houses they were working regaled them with tea, bread and butter, cake or other light refreshments, and occasionally even with beer - very different stuff from the petrifying liquid they bought at the Cricketers for twopence a pint


    13. Where the basis of the country is limestone, the waters always take up a great quantity of lime, and some of them possess great petrifying powers


    14. On breaking some of the bricks they were found to bear distinctly the impression of tree leaves, and brought under the influence of a petrifying spring which exists not far from the spot


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    Synonyms for "petrify"

    petrify ossify rigidify lapidify scare terrify alarm startle astonish paralyse benumb harden solidify clarify fossilise fossilize strengthen stiffen

    "petrify" definitions

    cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright


    change into stone


    make rigid and set into a conventional pattern