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Example sentences for "fossilized"

Lexicographically close words:
fossiles; fossiliferous; fossilisation; fossilised; fossilization; fossils; fossor; fossorial; fost; fosterage
  1. These investigations have demonstrated the existence, at great depths in the ocean, of living animals in some cases identical with, in others very similar to, those which are found fossilized in the white chalk.

  2. Neo-Chassidism was favored by two circumstances, the fraternization of the members and the dryness and fossilized character of Talmudic study as carried on in Poland for more than a century.

  3. The two fossilized Mendelssohnians, Ben-David and David Friedlaender, also became members of the society, and Jacobson was ready with advice and assistance.

  4. This fossilized philosophy appears neither to have satisfied him nor to have brought him sufficient means of subsistence, for he applied himself in riper years to the study of medicine.

  5. Because of their softness they have rarely been well fossilized and are, therefore, of no great evolutionary or geological importance.

  6. Ordovician strata contain representatives of all the main types of Echinoderms in well-fossilized forms.

  7. In still older strata do the fossilized bones of an Ape more anthropoid, or a Man more pithecoid, than any yet known await the researches of some unborn paleontologist?

  8. Cone of the spruce fir, fossilized by brown hematite.

  9. His problem is to protect the spirit of inquiry, to keep it from becoming blase from overexcitement, wooden from routine, fossilized through dogmatic instruction, or dissipated by random exercise upon trivial things.

  10. Sidenote: Fossilized versus flexible principles] The true purpose of exercises that apply rules and principles is, then, not so much to drive or drill them in as to give adequate insight into an idea or principle.

  11. When this divorce occurs, principles become fossilized and rigid; they lose their inherent vitality, their self-impelling power.

  12. Mineral Coal is fossilized wood or other vegetable matter.

  13. Mineral coal is fossilized vegetable matter; anthracite has had most of the volatile hydro-carbons removed by distillation in the earth; bituminous and cannel coals retain them.

  14. The rocks of the Evanston, Wasatch, and Fowkes formations contain various fossilized remains of mammals which once inhabited the Fossil Basin.

  15. It is the purpose of this report to relate the history of Fossil Lake and its now fossilized inhabitants, thereby, hopefully presenting the order of events in a landscape obscured by 50 million years of time.

  16. Briefly, this is a surgical device applied on a large scale for the "setting" of the much-fractured bones of a fossilized skeleton.

  17. The city seems like a stony growth out of the hillside, or a fossilized city,--so old and singular it is, without enough life and juiciness in it to be susceptible of decay.

  18. For the first fifteen miles the valley is absolutely flat, and deposits of semi-fossilized shells indicate a historically recent upheaval.

  19. There is no signaling here, as at other rivers in the State, for fossilized Spaniards to take us over the bars.

  20. He speaks of the frequency with which geologists find in the chalk a fossilized sea-urchin, to which is attached the lower valve of a Crania.

  21. Only you could contemplate imbuing these fossilized and commonplace intellects, composing our Congress of the Confederation--mark the ring of it!

  22. Nevertheless, the fact remained that she was a very young, unmarried woman, that she was going to live alone, and that she was breaking through the whole hard shell of fossilized social tradition.

  23. Myrtle fossilized them as suddenly as if she had been a Gorgon instead of a beauty.

  24. Curious to say, the very ancient fossilized early art of Egypt does not assist us to trace it back to a prehistoric style, though it may lead us into prehistoric times.

  25. In it we are presented with a number of pictures of the utterly fossilized condition of the clergy of the day in the Established Church (see especially book II.

  26. The more circumstantial Oriental stories of the splitting of stones giving birth to heroes and gods may have been suggested by the finding in pebbles of fossilized shells--themselves regarded already as the parents of mankind.

  27. Perhaps the belief in such stones as creators of human beings may have been reinforced by finding actual fossilized shells within pebbles.

  28. It must be admitted, however, that the term "coal" is here being extended to only partially fossilized vegetation of younger geological age than true coal, and to bituminous shales of various ages.

  29. It comes down to us as the fossilized representative of an antique system, physically active but mentally inert, its organization rigidly fixed, and not to be disturbed unless the empire itself is rent to pieces.

  30. The only conclusion that can reasonably be drawn from this strange fact is that we are here dealing with a fossilized structure, a functionless survival.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fossilized" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ancient; antediluvian; antiquated; antique; archaic; backed; callous; classical; crabbed; crusty; crystallized; debilitated; decrepit; doddering; feeble; fossilized; granulated; hardened; incrusted; indurated; infirm; ossified; palsied; petrified; reinforced; rickety; rusty; senile; shaky; shriveled; solidified; steeled; stiffened; strengthened; superannuated; timeworn; tottering; tottery; toughened; vitrified; weak; withered; wizened