Example Sentences

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"They're being sold as generic medications, and that petrifies me."

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2025

One can imagine how the thought of going to jail petrifies him.

From Salon • May 10, 2024

It petrifies teachers who fear their students will use it instead of their brains for school papers.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2023

As the resin petrifies and turns into amber, it preserves whatever gets stuck inside of it—including insects, slime molds and even pint-sized dinosaurs—in a gold-tinted time capsule.

From Scientific American • Jan. 12, 2023

Secondly, The water of Giezer in Iceland, actually petrifies bodies which are alternately imbibed with that hot water and exposed to the air.

From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by Hutton, James