How to Use petrified in a Sentence

petrified

adjective

• The seeds look like dark chocolate milk duds or petrified deer scat.
  — Carl R. Gold, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2024
• But as her petrified dancers suddenly came to life, so did the singer.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
• The plant people have their petrified forests and fossil fronds.
  — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2021
• The petrified waterfalls have turquoise pools perched on cliff edges.
  — Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2025
• There’s a scene where a petrified Fak carries broth and two bowls out to a table on a tray.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2025
• But the petrified driver was just looking for a way out of the Palisades.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
• About 2 miles in, bear left to find the caves, which are actually petrified sand dunes.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024
• Some people are freaked out by any taxidermy (me), never mind the petrified remains of a beloved pet.
  — John Hodgman, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• Want to drive your ATV or collect petrified wood?
  — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
• The other, a dinosaur jaw, turned out to be a chunk of petrified wood that mollusks had burrowed into.
  — Joshua Sokol, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
• The main attraction, an 80-foot-long petrified tree, lies in pieces across one end of the parking lot.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2024
• The same goes for cultural artifacts, antlers, petrified wood, or rocks.
  — Erin Strout, SELF, 8 June 2022
• The petrified family heard glass break as militants broke into the home.
  — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
• The Guadalupe Mountains are the petrified remnants of an ancient reef.
  — Mike Bezemek, Outside, 29 Oct. 2025
• Interspersed in the red stone were narrow bands of black shale containing petrified fish, from a time when a deep lake covered the area.
  — Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2015
• In addition to petrified wood, the sharp-eyed spotter can see marine and insect fossils.
  — Nicole Ludden, The Arizona Republic, 23 Apr. 2020
• There's so much to see, from the Painted Desert in the north to the southern half of the drive, where most of the petrified wood lies.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2026
• In the gift shop your brother chases you around a rack of oven mitts with a petrified alligator head until your table is called.
  — Casey McQuiston, Bon Appétit, 22 June 2022
• But my wife and I were petrified that Trump’s influence could harm our family.
  — Aquilino Gonell, New York Daily News, 26 Jan. 2025
• Some of the best displays of petrified logs can be seen along the short Crystal Forest Trail.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 19 May 2021
• Is the petrified upper lip of past royal protocol a handicap now?
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2021
• Two-plus years spent embedded in this world have left me feeling petrified by the sweeping changes about to strike the global labor market.
  — Gary Rivlin, Time, 4 June 2025
• The petrified bones of extinct horses, ground sloths, cheetahs and bears have been uncovered from the dusty layers of time exposed here.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025
• But Ingrid is petrified of dying and tries to convince Martha there is still plenty worth living for.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2024
• Big concentrations of petrified wood can be easily seen along walking trails and roadside stops in the southern part of the park.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
• Scenic drives along winding roads and unpaved hiking trails reveal petrified forests and dramatic canyon overlooks.
  — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 19 May 2026
• The dunes eventually kneeled to the Atlantic, stretching out as a broad, empty beach pierced with totems of petrified tree trunks.
  — Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2025
• What did that earth remember, that patch of chalky Pleistocene tuff full of the petrified remains of pre-people and their stone hand axes?
  — Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
• Her husband pulled his hand out of debris near the still-standing fireplace, holding up a piece of petrified wood handed down by his grandmother.
  — Manuel Valdes, Julie Watson, John Seewer and Heather Hollingsworth The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 11 Jan. 2025
• And there’s a tempting heresy in the idea of being aroused by apocalypse, as Blanchett’s character is, rather than petrified or numbed.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2021