| He could feel the light crisping his skin, in but a few moments he would petrify like aged wood and splinter across the floor. |
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| The chemical components used to artificially petrify wood can be found in natural settings around volcanoes and within sedimentary strata. |
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| Shrewdly anticipating the volcanic cloud that was shortly to petrify Europe, we took the Eurostar. |
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| She had the gift of finding beauty in a wasteland, and her eye tends to petrify what it looks at. |
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| Our practice and our thought recognize infanticide in the archetypal mother, its desire to smother, dissolve, mourn, bewitch, poison, and petrify. |
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| An ostrich egg, mysteriously abandoned on a mud flat, seems destined to petrify in the light of a distant sunset. |
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| Here in the Prairies, it's the hand of nature that can parch the land with drought, beat it with hailstones, petrify it with cold. |
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| Legend has it that the holy man, hidden not far from there, took advantage of this opportunity to petrify them. |
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| Wood can petrify after it died and becomes buried by sand or mud or the ash of a volcano so that air can't reach it. |
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| Painting Communism as universally and thoroughly evil is part of an ongoing ideological battle to petrify the historiography of the cold war. |
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| Its structures will petrify. It will never learn that without risk-taking there is no opportunity and no hope. |
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| Potassium silicate paints whose principal quality is that once applied they petrify with the substrate, i.e. they become part of it. |
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| His opinion on Ergenekon changed as he researched, signaling perhaps that government pressure can no longer be used as a way to petrify opinions, that cool analysis of evidence could tip the scales of the debate. |
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| Belarus now looks doomed to petrify in its sad, regressive state, unless Russia can be persuaded to do something about it. Before last week's referendum, there were widespread fears about how the votes would be counted. |
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| A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition. |
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