Example Sentences

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Yet the canonization of so-called experimental films in universities is precisely the reason both for these films’ endurance and for their petrification.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 21, 2016

If we look at our goal directly, we may succumb to petrification.

From Forbes • Nov. 28, 2014

The myth has tantalizing hints for the dilemmas of modern management coping with the twin challenges of petrification and transformation.

From Forbes • Nov. 28, 2014

Although she "enjoyed a real cold petrification," the debut was a major success.

From Time Magazine Archive

What lay ahead of me was worse than petrification.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan