Sentence examples for ossified that from inspiring English sources

Members of this family have small mouths and strong teeth, heavily ossified (that is, composed of true bone rather than cartilage) dermal bones, and hemiheterocercal tails.

Camden represented that first wave of adolescent arrogance, where you start to believe that your interests and tastes are becoming ossified, that this you, this 14-year-old you, will be you forever.

But what exactly does it mean to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of an institution whose original purpose was to ossify that liberating art form?

If we refuse, or are unable, to work together because the classes have ossified into groups that do not trust each other and do not meet, does that mean an end to progress?

Many say, however, that it has ossified into an organisation that purported to help the majority Malays gain a more equitable share of the nation's wealth but did more to allow an elite to line its pockets.

In agreement, Davidson stresses that since the navicular is not yet ossified at the time of initial clubfoot release, the surgeon cannot rely on intraoperative radiographs and should instead directly visualize the talonavicular joint during pinning.

How do you write about places that have, in a sense, ossified into dioramas of themselves — that are obscured by how much they've already been seen?

ICE was confronting a trading world that had ossified into an almost ritualistic society.

As the global economic malaise deepens, it's time to reconsider the pathologies that have ossified into normal economics.

The legendary game developer and his crew quickly used the Wii's motion-sensitive Wiimote to refresh a business that had ossified around dual analog sticks and fists full of buttons.

But the Berlin-based DJ's seemingly perpetual position atop the perch is indicative of a larger turn towards bland, conservative clubbing a turn that's ossified into an inevitability.