Sentence examples for petrified her from inspiring English sources

Restrictive adult gear like bras and neckties petrified her.

At 28, she was responsible for 11 children, and the thought of another one petrified her.

"When she was told there was no help for her, and that she might lose the baby, she was petrified," her husband, Matthew Devin, says.

At times that petrifies her.

There is a man shot through his eyeglasses, who shed tears and glass when he cried, and a local surgeon who stored his dead daughter in a cave (the model for "McDougal's cave" in Tom Sawyer) to see if the limestone would "petrify" her body – although this is an anecdote that requires the clarification offered by the "Explanatory Notes" at the volume's end.

Greek sculptors portrayed Niobe as simply "petrified in her pain" at the loss of her children.

When, completely against orders, she creeps downstairs at night to find out what Joss and his men are up to, it's not that she's not afraid – she's petrified – but her sense of moral outrage has outgrown her fear.

I was in the kitchen, and I stood petrified, hearing her yoo-hoo and my own merrily called name.

The deputy head – I was petrified of her – stopped us and said: 'No, no, no, you should be speaking English in school.' My dad found a job at a textile company owned by a Greek family.

This section describes Pellegrini's experience at last year's Gathering, where she was apparently so petrified of her coworkers that she actually brought mace to the event.

Threats such as knocking out her teeth or death threats exacerbated the level of psychological violence until the survivor became very stressed and petrified of her tormentor.