How to Use petrified in a Sentence

petrified

adjective

• The seeds look like dark chocolate milk duds or petrified deer scat.
  — Carl R. Gold, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2024
• Some of the best displays of petrified logs can be seen along the short Crystal Forest Trail.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 19 May 2021
• The main attraction, an 80-foot-long petrified tree, lies in pieces across one end of the parking lot.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2024
• The plant people have their petrified forests and fossil fronds.
  — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2021
• Does the mere thought of investing leave you petrified?
  — Serenity Gibbons, Forbes, 22 June 2021
• About 2 miles in, bear left to find the caves, which are actually petrified sand dunes.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024
• Some people are freaked out by any taxidermy (me), never mind the petrified remains of a beloved pet.
  — John Hodgman, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• The other, a dinosaur jaw, turned out to be a chunk of petrified wood that mollusks had burrowed into.
  — Joshua Sokol, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
• Interspersed in the red stone were narrow bands of black shale containing petrified fish, from a time when a deep lake covered the area.
  — Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2015
• And there’s a tempting heresy in the idea of being aroused by apocalypse, as Blanchett’s character is, rather than petrified or numbed.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2021
• For example, at Arva, the petrified wood in the ceiling is meant to be reminiscent of the sandy bottoms of the Mediterranean Sea.
  — Rachel King, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2022
• But Ingrid is petrified of dying and tries to convince Martha there is still plenty worth living for.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2024
• Saunders added warmth to the space by wrapping the exhaust hood in 10-inch planks of oak—the same material used for the floors upstairs—and used a petrified wood from India for the island.
  — Courtney Hazlett, Robb Report, 31 Oct. 2021
• While the Dogman is only known to leave paw prints and petrified witnesses behind, at least one person is rumored to have died of fright.
  — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 3 Oct. 2024
• While the Dogman is only known to leave paw prints and petrified witnesses behind, at least one person is rumored to have died of fright.
  — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2023
• Per his wishes, Steve was laid to rest in Santa Monica in a green cemetery with a petrified wood headstone.
  — Jesse Hyde, Town & Country, 20 Oct. 2020
• In the gift shop your brother chases you around a rack of oven mitts with a petrified alligator head until your table is called.
  — Casey McQuiston, Bon Appétit, 22 June 2022
• Big concentrations of petrified wood can be easily seen along walking trails and roadside stops in the southern part of the park.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
• The petrified family heard glass break as militants broke into the home.
  — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
• The girls sat — almost touching — in petrified silence.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 8 July 2021
• In addition to petrified wood, the sharp-eyed spotter can see marine and insect fossils.
  — Nicole Ludden, The Arizona Republic, 23 Apr. 2020
• The Rainbow Forest Museum is a starting point for hiking trails to the famous petrified logs.
  — Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2020
• The same goes for cultural artifacts, antlers, petrified wood, or rocks.
  — Erin Strout, SELF, 8 June 2022
• Still, the renowned petrified logs, once part of an ancient tropical forest before they were felled by river systems millions of years ago, are a sight to behold.
  — J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine, 11 Apr. 2022
• And on top of that were layers of petrified mud that slowly settled after the S2 impact, along with salt crystals left behind by the evaporating oceans.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
• Forty tons of petrified remnants of the Caledonian forest, which had been washed by a loch and bleached by the sun, arrived from the Scottish Highlands on a double-length truck and were dumped beside the glad, looking like a huge pile of bones.
  — Town & Country, 28 Apr. 2023
• The monument will consist of sculptures resembling petrified banyan trees in tribute to the villages where many of the city’s Chinese immigrants came from.
  — Paul Pringle, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
• Is the petrified upper lip of past royal protocol a handicap now?
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2021
• Then there were my parents’ collections of books and Japanese and German prints, American quilts and vintage fabrics, petrified stones and hunks of coral.
  — Hanya Yanagihara, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• Paleontologists know this not from petrified bones but from marks left in the sediment by the living creatures.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Jan 2025