petrifying

Example Sentences

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“This was the most petrifying part, not being able to be there to shield your kids and know if they were safe,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

The self-infantilizing is disconcerting to watch, and no doubt petrifying to experience firsthand, but Gaga dodges the fan and gets into her waiting vehicle.

From Salon • Aug. 26, 2025

A couple whose baby suffered seizures and damage to his brain during labour have described their time in Edinburgh's maternity unit as "petrifying".

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2025

Holley gifts his readers with a uniquely intimate history of Black liberation that clearly demonstrates the error in petrifying these figures.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2023

Doc Daneeka cried shrilly with a surging, petrifying sensation of some on- rushing unavoidable disaster.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller