Are you petrified to give a public speech?
Principles and rules have petrified with the accumulated weight of precedent.
My husband was petrified by the thought of watching me go through the pain of labor and delivery.
I know some speakers who are petrified of presenting demos for fear that something will go wrong.
That night, the lion stayed out in the cold, starving, petrified and not knowing what to expect of "the night" when morning dawned.
Curators at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, where the rock has attracted tens of thousands of visitors each year, discovered that the "lunar rock", valued at? 308,000, was in fact petrified wood.
Stare up at her petrified, while she swells.
Sometimes the brakes in the brain are stuck and you are perpetually petrified.
Paris was threatened by foreign armies, people were petrified and Danton implored them to be "ever bolder".
Before reaching the cave, I climbed over a large petrified tree trunk, three feet in diameter, dating back millions of years.
The cement petrified after many years' erosion.
He soon got down to the body a young man lying in a petrified, twisted attitude.
Because people do change with time, you may find that attending parties alone-an act that petrified you two years ago-is now a manageable challenge.
This has petrified China's steelmakers and prompted Chinalco's intervention.
You probably think of marble as stone, but it is really petrified calcium (also known as old seashells).
The monster in the film petrified the baby.
And in 2009, a supposed moon rock from the first manned lunar landing, Apollo 11, given to the Dutch national museum in Amsterdam, proved to be nothing more than petrified wood.
When I saw her I was petrified. I couldn’t even look her in the eye to talk to her.
It was a 3 meter (10 foot) petrified body of a man. It was discovered in 1869 by a team of workers digging a well behind the home of William Newell in Cardiff, New York.
