How to Use calcify in a Sentence

calcify

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• 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 velvet is scraped off by the deer against trees after the antler has reached its full-grown, calcified state.
  — Alexandra Deabler, Fox News, 20 Aug. 2018
• The test, which is like a CT scan, measures calcified plaque in the coronary arteries.
  — Betsy McKay, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2018
• The sweat calcified to his mirrors wouldn’t make for great selfies, either.
  — Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2020
• 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
• All this would recede in Rowan’s life, Frisch knew, a blip easily calcified.
  — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2017
• The moment in last night’s episode was so defensive it was almost calcified.
  — Dana Schwartz, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• But sharks, which are made mostly of cartilage, lack this kind of hard, calcified tissue.
  — National Geographic, 11 Aug. 2016
• But sharks, which are made mostly of cartilage, lack this kind of hard, calcified tissue.
  — National Geographic, 11 Aug. 2016
• They are called bioherms, and form gradually over time as corals grow, die and calcify.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2016
• 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
• Brady is calcifying in front of our eyes, the Patriots are free-fallin’, and the tailgating universe is loving it.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• 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
• Both topics were once deemed thought-provoking but have long since calcified into tired memes.
  — Heather Schwedel, Slate Magazine, 19 Dec. 2017
• Now, after decades keeping the world at arm's length, the Argentine has gone on the record to have his say on a narrative long-calcified in public memory.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 12 June 2019
• A year into his term, public opinion on the 45th president has calcified.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
• Outside the city, the gorgeous Hierve el Agua calcified waterfall remains one of the most popular day trips.
  — Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2020
• Trump’s supporters, for their part, are already skeptical of the scholarly elite, and the sight of white-coats marching on the Capitol will only calcify their stance.
  — Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, 8 Feb. 2017
• Public institutions often calcify to the point of being unable to adapt to change.
  — Ian Bremmer and Mustafa Suleyman, Foreign Affairs, 16 Aug. 2023
• Bad bills — bills that calcify our state’s bad ideas, that repeat old mistakes, that tilt again at that old foil the U.S. Constitution — sail through on a legislative express lane.
  — al, 27 Feb. 2020
• There are days when my washed clothes sit in the basket unfolded until the wrinkles have practically calcified.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2017
• Submerged in the corner of a retention pond in Wellington, Florida, rested a car that was heavily calcified and clearly had been in the water for a long time.
  — The Washington Post, oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2019
• 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
• Perhaps one way of understanding The Topeka School is as a meditation on how the snow of whiteness can calcify and harden, freeze, into an icy weapon.
  — Christine Smallwood, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• And that’s why living your life only to avoid disappointment will result in a tiny, isolated existence where all your dreams calcify in the back of your throat and turn into bile.
  — Goldie Chan, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• Carbonation has a way of calcifying fresh rice and breaking it into little lumpy bits.
  — Chantal Braganza, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
• Not only that, but the despair and disillusionment many of us have felt since the election can, in certain cases, calcify into a sort of gallows humor.
  — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 19 June 2018
• 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
• Changing employer hiring norms calcified over decades will prove tricky.
  — Steven Lee, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• But in a measure of how even Germany’s ability to absorb refugees has limits, some Ukrainians have been living in the small units for a year, their refugee lives calcified into permanence by the lack of affordable housing elsewhere.
  — Graham Bowley, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 21 Aug 2024