Petrify used in a sentence

Petrify in a sentence as a verb

For my message, I'd take something like a wooden abacus or astrolabe, something that will petrify like my mortal remains.

Because everything is state-owned, everything is "too big to fail" and all management structures petrify.

The cockatrice can petrify any ordinary being it contacts--save those wise adventurers who eat a dead lizard or blob of acid when they feel themselves slowly turning to stone.

"these tracheal cartilages may ossify" synonyms: turn into bone, become bony, calcify, harden, solidify, rigidify, petrify "the cartilage may ossify" 2. cease developing; be stagnant or rigid.

Violence is for those who do not have power.> All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.-- Hannah Arendt