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How to use petrifying in a sentence

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Towards the end of the night I took to sporting a rather freaky mask and petrifying the remaining guests.
The Greek heroes, on the other hand, can use the mirror to avoid being turned to stone as they battle the petrifying Medusa.
Most of the world's so-called petrifying springs deposit a sintery encrustation on objects immersed in them.
You can do things like base flying, where you jump off the side of a building and fall 100ft, which is brilliantly petrifying.
The commemorative urge, in literature as in architecture, risks petrifying into the blandly monumental.
You… Remember those pallid sourballs petrifying in the dish on your grandmother's coffee table?
Architecture seems to be entrenched in two equally unfertile fronts: Either naively utopian or petrifying pragmatic.
For those who live through an experience of violence, it can be petrifying.
So, to cut a long story short, we spent most of the day in that Sport Hall, most of it spent petrifying me by making me do all sorts of crazy acrobatics.
The first time you stand in front of the class as a member of staff is absolutely petrifying.
Horrible is the end which awaits the Harpies of the execrable Celaeno, which is to frightfully devolve within the Sub-World until petrifying and reducing themselves into cosmic dust.
The idea of speaking in front of such a large audience was petrifying.
Called petrifying springs, they are quite common in limestone districts.
Examples from Classical Literature
She was about to speak when he abruptly halted and faced her with a petrifying burst of malignance.
I've always used to get up with the lark, till I came under the petrifying influence of your turgid intellect.
Masson, a painter, held to a doctrine of eternal recurrence that was petrifying.
The most common petrifying materials are calcite, silica, and pyrite.
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