- present participle of petrify.
petrifying
Example Sentences
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Kenosha, Wisconsin's closest approximation to the Rubicon is the tiny Pike River, which flows from Petrifying Springs into Lake Michigan.
From Salon • Nov. 23, 2021
Petrifying sights and sounds haunt her nights and inchoate shadows hover around her.
From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2021
Of a place in England, where, without Petrifying Water, Wood is turned into Stone.
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry
"Petrifying dull work this, mon ami!" said the Captain, in a whisper to Morrice, "de grace, start some new game."
From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 by Burney, Fanny
