Example sentences for: petrified

How can you use “petrified” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Venice stagnated under the rule of a small entrenched élite, drawing nostalgic comfort from the city’s petrified beauty as painted in the vedute of Guardi and Canaletto.

  • In the middle of the nearby Pond of Neptune (Vasca del Nettuno), the burly sea god wields his trident in petrified parody of one of the Boboli’s gardeners.

  • The best place to survey the aftermath of the petrified lava is from the beautifully preserved 16th-century Castillo de San Miguel.

  • (Simpson also told me that after Drudge's report Isikoff "was fairly petrified that he would be pulled into a conflicted situation" and that their book project was "most emphatically" dropped.)

  • These eruptions sent an ever-widening stream of molten lava rushing down the green hillside here and you can see it now, petrified and black, as the road runs right through the once deadly mass.


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