ossify

Example Sentences

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Or am I about to do something that is going to reinforce these divisions and ossify the boundaries between people?

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2023

We know, for example, that when you hit your 60s and 70s, vocal folds weaken, cartilage in the larynx begins to ossify and respiratory systems that power voices start to work less efficiently.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2021

If we become convinced that we have figured things out, our creative endeavors—whether scientific, artistic, spiritual or political—might ossify.

From Scientific American • Sep. 20, 2021

The riots spread throughout Athens, then beyond into Thessaloniki and elsewhere in Europe, drawing many of the battle lines that would ossify once the Greek crisis erupted the following year.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2018

Then the cartilaginous vertebræ ossify and form a true backbone.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason