Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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Many of the streams in the province contain small bits of petrified wood, fish, fresh water crabs and other animals.
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Many of the manuscripts and ancient books had crumbled to powder and others had petrified because of the damp conditions of the storage facilities.
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He received two years' probation for an incident which was said to have petrified the boy concerned.
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The cornerstone buried in 1833 was unearthed and contained a candy jar with a petrified cork stoppering it.
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The locals had identified such bones as petrified horse hoofs.
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This is also called petrifaction, as in petrified wood.
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The vast majority of petrified wood occurs within the conglomerates.
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Most of the petrified wood and buried tree trunks occur within the conglomerates.
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A mortal fear, a petrified horror, appears on her face.
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Examples include petrified wood and pyritized gastropod shells.
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