Petrified in example sentence

Thus benumbed, frozen, petrified, she had barely noticed on two or three occasions, the sound of a trap door opening somewhere above her, without even permitting the passage of a little light, and through which a hand had tossed her a bit of black bread.

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Folks, I'm petrified.

And you know, the oddest part is, when I was on my way traveling here to TED, I'll be honest, I was petrified.

I mean, these people had nothing, and they were so petrified, they wanted to give up, but the woman in the center rallied for them to persevere, and abolitionists on the ground helped them get a quarry lease of their own, so that now they do the same back-breaking work, but they do it for themselves, and they get paid for it, and they do it in freedom.

He was petrified he would be knocked in the water.

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