Thesaurus / petrifying
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
The water has also a petrifying quality, covering every substance that it passes over with a hard white stony substance.
THE BOOK OF CURIOSITIESI. PLATTS
The longing for a real heart-to-heart friendship had been on one side only; that was the first, and most petrifying revelation.
FLAMING JUNEMRS. GEORGE DE HORNE VAIZEY
The Duchess is reduced to speechlessness, and takes refuge in a petrifying stare.
MR. PUNCH'S HISTORY OF MODERN ENGLAND VOL. IV OF IV.CHARLES L. GRAVES
Calcareous tuf consists of similar incrustations made by petrifying rivulets running over mud, sand, vegetable remains, &c.
Something in me had suddenly turned stony, like a plant plunged in petrifying water.
RECOLLECTIONS OF MY CHILDHOOD AND YOUTHGEORGE BRANDES
But this led to a petrifying formalism, and to a tedious lengthening of the aria, which sacrificed character to vocal display.
LIFE OF MOZART, VOL. 1 (OF 3)OTTO JAHN
He dropped the too true volume from his hand; his petrifying heart dropped hollowly within him, as a pebble down Carrisbrook well.
PIERRE; OR THE AMBIGUITIESHERMAN MELVILLE
No word fell from her lips; her very heart seemed congealing, petrifying; she sat like one transformed to stone.
THE GYPSY QUEEN'S VOWMAY AGNES FLEMING
Unlike the marble of antiquity awakening into life, she might have been compared to a living woman petrifying into stone.
THE COMPANIONS OF JEHUALEXANDRE DUMAS, PRE
Kate felt herself slowly petrifying under the warm drip of Mrs. Peyton's platitudes.
SANCTUARYEDITH WHARTON
WORDS RELATED TO PETRIFYING
- abhorrent
- appalling
- atrocious
- awe-inspiring
- awesome
- awful
- beastly
- dangerous
- desperate
- dire
- disastrous
- disturbing
- dread
- dreaded
- dreadful
- extreme
- fearful
- frightful
- ghastly
- gruesome
- harrowing
- hateful
- hideous
- horrendous
- horrid
- horrifying
- inconvenient
- loathsome
- monstrous
- obnoxious
- odious
- offensive
- petrifying
- poor
- repulsive
- revolting
- rotten
- serious
- severe
- shocking
- unfortunate
- unnerving
- unpleasant
- unwelcome
- vile
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