Use petrified in a sentence
Sentences ending with petrified
- I waited two or three moments; then looked up; he was standing there petrified. [5]
- He said the most of Sir Dinadan's jokes were rotten and the rest were petrified. [5]
- Your superman, at least the kind of superman you portray, is petrified. [9]
- With great labor its loose skin was removed, whereupon its body was discovered to be of a polished white texture, thoroughly petrified. [5]
- I was paralyzed; I couldn't move, I was choking, my tongue was petrified. [5]
More example sentences with the word petrified in them
- I'm the man with a petrified heart and biler-iron bowels! [5]
- And so they went ripping along, and everybody just petrified to see it; and when they got to the Capitol at last it was the quickest trip that ever was made, and everybody said so. [5]
- His white hair was chiselled on his broad brow, his face was a solemn pathos petrified, his lips were curled with an iron contempt, an incalculable anger. [11]
- My pyrhanism vanished upon his statement that in the very region referred to he had seen petrified trees of the length of two hundred feet. [5]
- I mixed it up rather too much; and so all that description of the attitude, as a key to the humbuggery of the article, was entirely lost, for nobody but me ever discovered and comprehended the peculiar and suggestive position of the petrified man's hands. [5]
- How different is this marvel observed from a raft, from what it is when one observes it through the dingy windows of a railway-station in some wretched village while he munches a petrified sandwich and waits for the train. [5]
- There is nothing there but the sun, an occasional sail, and quiet, petrified Capri, three miles distant across the strait. [4]
- I depended on the way the petrified man was sitting to explain to the public that he was a swindle. [5]
- He had noticed the old man straighten himself with a spring and stand as though petrified when Ingolby said: "Why don't you turn on the light? [11]
- The old lady stood petrified with astonishment, peering over her glasses; Tom lay on the floor expiring with laughter. [5]
- Then we all stood petrified but happy, for none of us had ever seen an ocean, or ever expected to. [5]
- Mary only stood still as if petrified, and after gazing at the ground for a minute or two without a cry, she turned her back on her companion and silently went back into the shaded walk. [10]
- I do not state this as a petrified fact--I only suppose they were eating gravel, because there did not appear to be any thing else for them to eat. [5]
- I am the spirit of the Petrified Man that lies across the street there in the museum. [5]
- I said, "Just so--they are staring petrified at the remains. [5]
- I put my scheme in the shape of the discovery of a remarkably petrified man. [5]
- The Petrified Man rose slowly to his feet, and said: "Honestly, is that true? [5]
- The guests were petrified, and the mason muttered: "There is that about earthly pomps which doth ever move to reverence. [5]
- His face was petrified with amazement. [11]
- Absolute attention and petrified retention to the end of an act of the attitude assumed at the beginning of it. [5]
- There sat Marco, petrified in the act of trying to get the hang of his miller-gun--turned to stone, just in the attitude he was in when my pile-driver fell, the toy still gripped in his unconscious fingers. [5]
- Here, here, you petrified fool--" But it was no use. [5]
- Was that instinct--thought petrified by ages of inherited habit? [5]
- Is it instinct?--thought petrified by ages of habit--or isn't it brand-new thought, inspired by the new occasion, the new circumstances? [5]
- The sudden glare paralyzed this host, petrified them, you may say, with astonishment; there was just one instant for me to utilize their immobility in, and I didn't lose the chance. [5]
- Think of the paralysis of intellect that gave that idea birth; imagine the boulder it emerged from on some petrified legislator's shoulders. [5]
- This petrified him, nearly, with fright; his mind was in such a state that he could imagine the thing to be nothing else than a corpse, newly dead and still warm. [5]
- I turned upon my poor aunt, who was almost petrified with terror, and shouted: "Out of this with your paupers, your charities, your reforms, your pestilent morals! [5]
- Everywhere were these impressive petrified forms; and everywhere was suspended movement and that awful stillness. [5]
- Balashev noticed that his left leg was quivering faster than before and his face seemed petrified in its stern expression. [2]
- Jane, leaning toward him, sat as if petrified, listening intently, waiting to hear more. [13]
- For one moment her petrified gaze fixed itself there. [5]
- The Petrified Man has sold everybody else, and now the mean fraud has ended by selling its own ghost! [5]
- Some petrified things had been found in the rocks, but I did not think they were going to these. [11]
- I suppose the face will retain that petrified laugh until the corpse turns to dust. [5]
- The flaming torrent cooled in the winds from the sea, and remains there to-day, all seamed, and frothed and rippled a petrified Niagara. [5]
- Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff. [5]
- Sounds like poetry, but it's the petrified truth. [5]
- Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period. [5]
- He stood still as if petrified, and the goddess, too, did not stir. [10]
- The figure-artist is a German shoemaker with an untaught passion for art, the other is a simple hearted old Yankee sailor-man whose possibilities are strictly limited to his ship, his cannon and his patch of petrified sea. [5]
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