Sentence examples for petrified form from inspiring English sources
I have visited Fort Yates, the capital of the Standing Rock reservation, and there contemplated the original standing rock, held to be the petrified form of a young woman and her baby, and sacred to the Hunkpapa Sioux.
Cities drowned and then buried in silty blankets will persist in a petrified form.
Indeed, Lazarus later disparaged what she called "petrified religious forms" and aspired as a Jewish intellectual to emulate Disraeli, Spinoza and Heinrich Heine — a secular Jew, a heretic and an apostate.
The artist says the entire installation is meant to be a poetic account of "history but petrified into sculptural form that deliver a more dreamy and honorific dimension".
Uranium salts accumulated in this formation in economically extractable quantities and petrified wood was formed (petrification was probably aided by the presence of volcanic ash).
Couple this with the fact that most people who form bands are secretly petrified of being different and, voila, you have something of a homogenous, boring musical landscape.
Reports described the Cardiff Giant as a complete man, "A human form of huge proportions, entirely petrified".
Such was the origin of every form, whether living today or extinct: dragons and chameleons, chimeras and harpies, crocodiles and minotaurs, elephants and giants, whose petrified bones are still found today, to our amazement, in the heart of the mountains.
I was petrified, absolutely petrified, that day.
I was petrified!" Petrified, but not intimidated.
