Fossilized is an English word with synonyms like fossilised or ossified. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Fossilized in a sentence
Fossilized meaning
- In a state of fossilization; preserved in rock.
- Old-fashioned, outmoded, or rigidly fixed in a way that is resistant to change.
- Having become a fossil; no longer productive.
Synonyms of Fossilized
Using Fossilized
- The main meaning on this page is: In a state of fossilization; preserved in rock. | Old-fashioned, outmoded, or rigidly fixed in a way that is resistant to change. | Having become a fossil; no longer productive.
- Useful related words include: fossilised, ossified, inflexible.
- In the example corpus, fossilized often appears in combinations such as: the fossilized, of fossilized, and fossilized.
Context around Fossilized
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fossilized
- In this selection, "fossilized" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, main, tiny, touchable, evidence, bones and peat stand out and add context to how "fossilized" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include among tiny fossilized sea creatures and and exquisite fossilized pollen. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fossilized" sits close to words such as abdulaziz, abortive and acacia, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fossilized
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Republican Party, fossilized, regressive, wallowing in lazy bigotry, is pointed to the past. (14 words)
Visitors will encounter 13 dinosaur casts, in addition to authentic dinosaur fossils, and touchable fossilized dinosaur specimens. (17 words)
Fossilized invertebrate embryos are rare, but when preserved, they offer key insights into the evolutionary developmental biology of extinct animals. (20 words)
Owing to the fact the Moroccan trilobites were encased in hot ash in sea water, their bodies fossilized very quickly as the ash transformed to rock—meeting a similar end to the inhabitants of Pompeii following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. (41 words)
Scientists have discovered fossilized evidence of the world’s earliest known forest atop remote cliffs in England, researchers announced late last month – offering a glimpse of how plants grew hundreds of millions of years ago. (35 words)
And so many of the places scientists find records of past climate conditions — in Antarctic ice or among tiny fossilized sea creatures in rock at the bottom of the ocean — seem so far away. (34 words)
For instance, we must consider the physics behind panspermia (how many objects collided with Earth prior to the earliest fossilized evidence for life? (23 words)
Example sentences (20)
The continent also offers better compression fossils, which show the outline of the plant and a type of fossilized peat, like fossilized wood, which gives scientists an understanding of the plant’s structure.
Fossilized embryos main Fossilized animal embryos are known from the Precambrian, and are found in great numbers during the Cambrian period.
And so many of the places scientists find records of past climate conditions — in Antarctic ice or among tiny fossilized sea creatures in rock at the bottom of the ocean — seem so far away.
In 1831, Charles Darwin set out aboard H.M.S. Beagle to collect living and fossilized specimens, which inspired his theory of natural selection.
Its name, pronounced “Bah-se-wa’ ja’ aw-wu sa,'” speaks to the modern-day location where its fossilized remains were unearthed: “big lizard from the Alcova area” of central Wyoming.
The scientists tested their model on modern emu and ostrich eggs before applying it to the fossilized eggshell fragments found in New Guinea.
Visitors will encounter 13 dinosaur casts, in addition to authentic dinosaur fossils, and touchable fossilized dinosaur specimens.
For instance, we must consider the physics behind panspermia (how many objects collided with Earth prior to the earliest fossilized evidence for life?
Fossilized invertebrate embryos are rare, but when preserved, they offer key insights into the evolutionary developmental biology of extinct animals.
In addition to hunting for fossilized clues of ancient life, the rover is investigating environments that might have harbored life.
In India, researchers have discovered the fossilized bones of a giant extinct snake that measured up to a staggering 50 feet long and may have weighed up to 2,200 pounds.
Kevin Petersen, an avocado farmer and curator of the Kronosaurus Korner fossil museum in northwest Queensland, Australia, unearthed a number of fossilized bones in western Queensland in 2021.
Owing to the fact the Moroccan trilobites were encased in hot ash in sea water, their bodies fossilized very quickly as the ash transformed to rock—meeting a similar end to the inhabitants of Pompeii following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Scientists have discovered fossilized evidence of the world’s earliest known forest atop remote cliffs in England, researchers announced late last month – offering a glimpse of how plants grew hundreds of millions of years ago.
The ginkgo tree has been called a "living fossil" because the leaves of its present-day representatives look similar to those of its ancestors that were fossilized millions of years ago.
The president compounded the equation by appointing his old warhorse ally as chair of board, a man whose recency of knowledge of the oil industry is as fossilized as prehistoric remains.
The Republican Party, fossilized, regressive, wallowing in lazy bigotry, is pointed to the past.
Until our visit and the construction worker's find, no one had any idea that six meters under their feet were perfectly preserved relics of an ancient rainforest and exquisite fossilized pollen.
A collection of three fossilized bird-like dinosaurs has resulted in the discovery of an entirely new species by a team led by a University of Alberta alumnus.
Miles of haphazardly broken trail will be closed, and significant sites — stones containing fossilized worms, ground holding tools made with bones from Ice-Age bison — will be preserved.
Common combinations with fossilized
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the fossilized 9×
- of fossilized 4×
- and fossilized 4×
- fossilized remains 4×
- fossilized bones 3×
- fossilized fish 2×
- fossilized evidence 2×
- as fossilized 2×
- with fossilized 2×
- this fossilized 2×