How to Use petrified in a Sentence

petrified

adjective
  • But as her petrified dancers suddenly came to life, so did the singer.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The petrified waterfalls have turquoise pools perched on cliff edges.
    — Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Want to drive your ATV or collect petrified wood?
    — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The Guadalupe Mountains are the petrified remnants of an ancient reef.
    — Mike Bezemek, Outside, 29 Oct. 2025
  • There's so much to see, from the Painted Desert in the north to the southern half of the drive, where most of the petrified wood lies.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2026
  • Scenic drives along winding roads and unpaved hiking trails reveal petrified forests and dramatic canyon overlooks.
    — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 19 May 2026
  • What did that earth remember, that patch of chalky Pleistocene tuff full of the petrified remains of pre-people and their stone hand axes?
    — Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The sculpture features four copper panels with letters cut through them, along with elements such as petrified wood, water and stones.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Sprinkled amid this lunar landscape is a colorful collection of petrified wood.
    — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • In addition to the rounded skull, the skeleton contains the first record of a pachycephalosaur hand and a complete tail covered with petrified tendons.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Hike the Giant Logs Trail to see petrified tree fossils that are over 200 million years old.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Hiking trails allow visitors to see the petrified wood, petroglyphs, and fossils.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2026
  • At the Crystal Forest Trail, petrified logs can easily be seen within steps of the parking area.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2026
  • Asthar Vreeswijk, a Dutch tourist, found Armero more moving than the petrified ruins of Pompeii.
    — NPR, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Hollywood has become petrified of anything close to polemical.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Beyond the petrified falls themselves, the conflict has closed off the wonders of the entire nature reserve around Hierve el Agua.
    — Kyle Valenta, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 July 2021
  • Go for a hike through one of the largest petrified forests in the United States along the Petrified Forest Loop.
    — Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The otherworldly petrified dunes, lava flows, and cliffs of Snow Canyon State Park are a mere 11 miles from town.
    — Tamara Gane, Travel + Leisure, 15 June 2026
  • The circular room—with its earthen floor, domed ceiling, petrified-wood water feature, and illuminated quartz crystal—felt womb-like.
    — Katie James Watkinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Jan. 2024
  • To the northeast, a buildup of reef and limestone from 260 million years ago holds petrified remains of marine creatures, souvenirs of the greatest flood in history.
    — Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Originally built with petrified wood, the inn has been restored, and in summer, there's an ice cream parlor, a reminder of its days as a popular stop on Route 66.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2026
  • Also further afield is the surreal petrified forest of Puruña and the Pillones waterfalls.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Petrified Forest Loop Just west of the South Unit lies the third-largest concentration of petrified wood in the country.
    — Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 1 June 2026
  • You can’t be discouraged and petrified simultaneously.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 6 May 2026
  • For millennia, Hierve el Agua’s natural springs have calcified its travertine cliff faces, creating this illusion of a petrified waterfall.
    — Kyle Valenta, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 July 2021
  • While the southern end of the park is known for its high concentration of petrified wood, the northern end has jaw-dropping views of the Painted Desert, the colorful expanse of hills, buttes, and mesas in Arizona’s high desert.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Where to go instead While the fight continues, visitors to Oaxaca can still find responsible ways to experience the state’s natural beauty that do not include its petrified falls.
    — Kyle Valenta, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 July 2021
  • As the pair wait to find out if Alpha is destined to become another petrified victim of the virus, her estranged uncle Amin (Tahar Rahim) comes back into the picture, plagued by the symptoms of heroin withdrawal.
    — Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The short Giant Logs Trail gives hikers the chance to see petrified wood up close, and the beautiful Blue Mesa Trail showcases the Painted Desert’s colorful cones.
    — Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Seven months later, Tamara stood petrified in front of the TV, her older sister sobbing beside her, as a Beverly Hills Police Department detective announced that Erik and Lyle would be arrested as the prime suspects in the killings.
    — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025

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