How to Use calcify in a Sentence

calcify

verb
  • Things that are stylish and clever the first time are calcified by the fourth episode.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
  • But the years had calcified into guilt.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Her bones are as calcified as those of a child between the ages of 6 and 8.
    — Ben Guarino, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Her bones are as calcified as those of a child between the ages of 6 and 8.
    — Ben Guarino, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The sweat calcified to his mirrors wouldn’t make for great selfies, either.
    — Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2020
  • And then the good couple is looking to them, because they are calcified and struggling.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2024
  • However, if there are plaques that have not yet calcified, they will not be detected.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
  • But as the decades rolled on, the conventions of these temples to excess calcified.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 14 June 2025
  • They are called bioherms, and form gradually over time as corals grow, die and calcify.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2016
  • Both topics were once deemed thought-provoking but have long since calcified into tired memes.
    — Heather Schwedel, Slate Magazine, 19 Dec. 2017
  • But sharks, which are made mostly of cartilage, lack this kind of hard, calcified tissue.
    — National Geographic, 11 Aug. 2016
  • In the meantime, the idea that social media is harmful has calcified.
    — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 17 July 2024
  • Over time, that bone started to calcify and thicken, bothering his labrums.
    — Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 22 May 2026
  • Decades of city life had calcified the tension in my bones, the chatter in my mind directing me to do more, buy more, and be more.
    — Meghan Palmer, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Instead of clear epoxy, the grains of sand are bonded by a very thin coating of gelatin calcified into de facto grout.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2020
  • At certain points in the novel, that distance calcifies and restrains his writing.
    — Taran Dugal, New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2026
  • All this would recede in Rowan’s life, Frisch knew, a blip easily calcified.
    — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2017
  • Even now, there is nothing like this fixture for curdling the stomach, calcifying the legs or scrambling minds.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Over the course of the shift, his body seems to calcify with tension, as though every successive hour in the hospital adds weight.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026
  • His muscles shrunk after the ejections, and will calcify, leading to muscle knotting in his back.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 24 May 2025
  • But a painful moment of transition need not calcify into a permanent state.
    — Judd Devermont, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2024
  • Carbonation has a way of calcifying fresh rice and breaking it into little lumpy bits.
    — Chantal Braganza, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Bonds and Clemens have been on the ballot six years, long enough for positions on them among returning voters to have calcified.
    — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Public institutions often calcify to the point of being unable to adapt to change.
    — Ian Bremmer and Mustafa Suleyman, Foreign Affairs, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The coronavirus pandemic and changes in drinking patterns have calcified such trends.
    — Ali Watkins, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
  • But that avoidance can often calcify into an argument that no one should be telling stories like this, period.
    — Julie Muncy, The Verge, 8 Nov. 2018
  • That’s always been a bias, but now there are anti-uggo algorithms being employed to calcify those ways of thinking.
    — Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
  • By mixing sand and gelatin and adding cyanobacteria, the researchers induce an action where the bacteria process the gelatin and calcify it.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Bill’s smarm has calcified into a kind of mad obsession; Hal is a starkly lonely and cowardly man.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2025
  • White Sox management has long been thought of as calcified in its strategies, disinclined to make changes, and not evolving with the rest of the sport.
    — Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024

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