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Petrified in sentence

55 examples of Petrified in a sentence

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.
In the Dark Ages, folks said they were snake tongues, petrified by Saint Paul.
So, Ma was trying to explain something to me about Grandma and when they grew up, but I couldn't pay attention to her because I was five years old, and I was petrified.
I personally started using the men's room when I started getting confused and frightened looks in the women's room, even though I was petrified to start going into the men's room.
I was petrified.
I was so petrified and so numb, all I could look was in the rear-view mirror.
Number two, many growers are, in fact, petrified by the idea of resistance, that the pests will become resistant to the chemicals, just like in our case, that bacteria becomes resistant to antibiotics.
No, it wasn't because it got me utterly petrified, no.
Kersey strikes a deal with the local police commissioner, conquers the heart of his blond attorney, blows away numerous villains with an impressive Wildey Magnum gun and gradually trains & inspires the petrified New Yorkers to stand up for themselves.
Unless you are petrified of Russian people or boars, this movie is a snorefest.
I was brought up on Doc Savage,and was petrified by the green death as a child but even then as now, I found it thoroughly entertaining.I have made countless friends and colleagues watch this film and have been most amused by the diversity of reactions,granted they mostly think I'm odd but there you are.
When he picks up a clearly petrified girl who's running from the cult to avoid being sacrificed, Michael is drawn even deeper into an occult conspiracy.
The people of that era weren't used to those kinds of images on the screen, so I imagine that they were probably petrified by Chaney and his ghastly makeup, which, for its day, was superb, as I stated before.
It is not a horror film, although I do happen to have a horror of things going wrong with water supplies, so I could have well been made to feel petrified under different circumstances.
I remember watching it (10 yrs old) and being petrified!
Radical reform of higher education is simply unimaginable without outside pressure on today’s petrified universities.
If the government feared her alive, it was petrified of her dead.
If they came to be accepted as the guiding principles of European policy, Europe’s economy would become petrified, with stagnant growth making it impossible to afford even modest levels of social transfers.
Its end came with that of the Soviet Union, as it petrified into authoritarian, corrupt, and inefficient military regimes and dictatorships.
Is Vladimir Putin Losing His Grip?MOSCOW – In 1984, just before Mikhail Gorbachev’s ascent to power, there was a sense in Moscow that the Soviet Union was petrified, and nothing could change.
The blues are the fruits of this success: because things worked so well for so long, Japanese practices became petrified.
Some refuse to see any legitimate reason for their defeat, dismissing their opponents’ supporters as “deplorables,” as Hillary Clinton did shortly before losing to Trump in 2016; others are too petrified by the populist surge to mount a counteroffensive.
His face, which was aged and full of suffering, seemed petrified.
When put into a net at the top it struggled fiercely; then, when it felt the ground no longer beneath it, it remained as if petrified and disappeared without a quiver of the skin, with enlarged and fixed eyes.
He was petrified by horror when he recognized Catherine and lanky Chaval.
My two gallant companions stood petrified at the sight of the wonders on display.
In the middle of the clearing, on a pedestal of roughly piled rocks, there stood a cross of coral, extending long arms you would have thought were made of petrified blood.
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