Lava can petrify trees. From LearnThat.org.
The build-up of petrify occurs when petrify is churned in colder weather. From Wordnik.com. [September 09, 2009 Meeting Minutes] Reference
TIFF image. iBlaze 3.0 now allows you to "petrify" an electronic document as either color or black & white. From Wordnik.com. [Law.com - Newswire] Reference
His utterance ceased, and he seemed suddenly to petrify. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER 25] Reference
The news of the loss of the Diamond seemed to petrify her. From Wordnik.com. [The Moonstone] Reference
It was the Gorgon, whose direct gaze could petrify a person. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon on a Pedestal]
"We don't have to petrify, do we?" she said, with a nervous ripple. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
“All right—you can stand there till you petrify,” I told him. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph Days] Reference
"I haven't seen a soul since one o'clock and I was beginning to petrify.". From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge] Reference
We'll die here, rot and slough, then petrify and become other faceless statues!. From Wordnik.com. [the secret sense]
The cluster of branches seemed to shudder, to slow ... and finally, to petrify. From Wordnik.com. [The Moment Of The Magician]
It is his business to make the stones tell their tale: not to petrify the listener. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology] Reference
The orthodox sectary makes no concession to environment, and tends to petrify and die. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
Dave sensitive a members of a Board which a organisation was cleaning a petrify mixer. From Wordnik.com. [September 09, 2009 Meeting Minutes] Reference
Without thinking, outréblack squirrels inhabit upper Michigan and petrify the involute world. From Wordnik.com. [Black Squirrel Poem] Reference
Just don't put out any tiny ones and forget them and let them rot and petrify on your mantle. From Wordnik.com. [smashing pumpkins...um, literally!] Reference
For that matter, do any of the more iconic horror movie villains still deliver the power to petrify?. From Wordnik.com. [Do any of these horror movie icons still scare you?] Reference
Gorgons; for his mind seemed to resemble those fountains which petrify everything that falls into them. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859] Reference
As the blood flowed away carrying life along with it, her burning mind began to cool, and slow, and petrify. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
Like having a child, we relish the notion that we might cheat death and petrify our aesthetic DNA for all eternity. From Wordnik.com. [Kimberly Brooks: First Person Artist: Chris Roth To The Rescue!] Reference
Pre-code horror publications were in the business to petrify the pants off you and obviously many of them succeeded. From Wordnik.com. [Can Comics Be Scary?] Reference
High Earth did not petrify failed traitors and mortar them into walls, but it had its own ways of showing displeasure. From Wordnik.com. [Anywhen]
Each night the temperature fell below zero, to petrify the soft ridges of glutinous mud which bordered every road across the steppe. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarossa]
Remember, this insurgency is infamous for constantly adapting tactics and coming up with new methods to utterly petrify the Iraqi people. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2007] Reference
Junius Claudius Maro regarded the balding, podgy little man with a look fit to petrify absolutely that fellow's already chilled cobblers. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves]
And all this at the age when one begins to petrify!. From Wordnik.com. [Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence] Reference
I believe she would petrify me if I had to bear them. From Wordnik.com. [Daisy] Reference
Give him time to settle down and petrify in falsehood?. From Wordnik.com. [The Light Shines in Darkness] Reference
The old-fashioned way is freeze, petrify and mold your wax by. From Wordnik.com. [It Is Never Too Late to Mend] Reference
"Better bury them in the mud," I suggested, "and let them petrify.". From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Methuselah] Reference
Don't you see that these infamous doctrines petrify the human heart?. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest] Reference
Policy seems to petrify their minds when they 've got on an eminence. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference
Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain's Speeches] Reference
And we can be sure that, in its absence, the canon will continue to petrify. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
'Or she will take out her Gorgon's head in the midst, and petrify her subjects!. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the House, V1] Reference
Their concepts petrify from lack of use and the constant reconstruction which growth necessitates. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind and Its Education] Reference
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