Sentence examples for suddenly petrified from inspiring English sources
When the Prince looks out at what he considers "the real Sicily" — the landscape around Donnafugata — he sees it "aridly undulating to the horizon in hillock after hillock, comfortless and irrational, with no lines that the mind could grasp, conceived apparently in a delirious moment of creation; a sea suddenly petrified at the instant when a change of wind had flung the waves into a frenzy".
As I made my way home the sun came out and burnt away the ground water to reveal 'the real Sicily again, the one compared with which baroque towns and orange groves are mere trifles; aridly undulating to the horizon in hillock after hillock, comfortless and irrational... a sea suddenly petrified at the instant when a change of wind had flung the waves into a frenzy'.
Two weeks later — the day before my thirty-first birthday — I left the house once, to buy groceries; petrified for no reason, I suddenly lost bowel control and soiled myself.
Suddenly, the talk is of a political system grown petrified, and in urgent need of a root-and-branch overhaul that restores the accountability of politicians — and of the government — to the people.
Either the monkey was too petrified to move or it knew something we didn't, because it let the chimp get close and suddenly they were playing together, tentatively, like three-year-olds on their first day at nursery.
I was petrified, absolutely petrified, that day.
I was petrified!" Petrified, but not intimidated.
