ossify

When and how had their society ossified into these rigid little boxes?

I thought his mind had ossified a century ago.

If people are afraid of looking at a new idea, we're going to be ossified as an art form."

The human skeleton begins to ossify around the seventh week.

The greater part of the bone is ossified in cartilage.

After he retired, however, his guidelines ossified into a canon.

The disease has the most impact on fish less than five months old because their skeletons have not ossified.

At this late stage, my public career is ossified.

"But the subsidy process for theaters in the state is ossified.

The axis is ossified from five primary and two secondary centers.

But now we need the Gang of 14 back again, because another issue has ossified into abstract ideological debate.

Were we all well adjusted, we would ossify and die.

A primary ossification center is the first area of a bone to start ossifying.

He says Italian television has ossified, with little pay television and almost no cable.

The old religion of ancient Egypt had ossified, and the country was ripe for conversion.

Sooner or later, it ossified and politics carried it into a fall.

The skull must be almost completely ossified to need such power to vibrate the bone.

With Redgrave, it is an identity that has ossified into hard, cold granite.

The layers of his self, which he could have shed in the Abyss, ossify around him.

Young architects revere him - in large part because he has refused to ossify or settle down.

You see, if the Federation doesn't centralize soon, it'll ossify.

Yet these bony plates are not modified scales, but skin that has been ossified.

For example, the skeleton is not fully ossified, consisting largely of cartilage.

Teaching at the university ossified, and an 1807 decree abolished the university.

His face was a hard mask, lips fused to gums and ossified.