How do you use Ossified in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like hard or fossilized, plus the exact meaning.
Ossified in a sentence
Ossified meaning
- Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone or a bone-like mass).
- Inflexible, old-fashioned.
- Drunk.
Synonyms of Ossified
Using Ossified
- The main meaning on this page is: Having undergone the process of ossification (transformation into bone or a bone-like mass). | Inflexible, old-fashioned. | Drunk.
- Useful related words include: hard, fossilized, fossilised, inflexible.
- In the example corpus, ossified often appears in combinations such as: ossified and.
Context around Ossified
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 6 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ossified
- In this selection, "ossified" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, illuminated, small, usually, position, practices and political stand out and add context to how "ossified" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aging and ossified top political and are better ossified and their. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ossified" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ossified
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The atlas is usually ossified from three centers. (8 words)
Now it’s been a quarter century since the clichés ossified. (11 words)
Their skulls are mostly broad and short, and are often incompletely ossified. (12 words)
Today, anyone and everyone who desires to know and possibly do better can, and should do so, instead of falling back on the ossified position that corporal punishment worked in their time and thus would work now. (37 words)
As I have written a lot recently, England’s handling of the pandemic proves that its creaking, centralised system of government, full of ossified practices and institutionalised prejudice, needs to be thoroughly localised and democratised. (35 words)
The young turks within SF also had an ossified 'ancient regime' to topple: John Campbell's intolerant right-wing editorials for 'Astounding Science Fiction' (which he renamed 'Analog' in 1960) teetered on the self parody. (35 words)
Example sentences (16)
Today, anyone and everyone who desires to know and possibly do better can, and should do so, instead of falling back on the ossified position that corporal punishment worked in their time and thus would work now.
As I have written a lot recently, England’s handling of the pandemic proves that its creaking, centralised system of government, full of ossified practices and institutionalised prejudice, needs to be thoroughly localised and democratised.
But ultimately civil conflicts with political roots cannot be resolved without domestic will and leadership, and Cameroon's ossified political class has thus far failed to muster either.
Now it’s been a quarter century since the clichés ossified.
Other apt entries from the Wodehouse lexicon I’ve lovingly borrowed over the years: awash; lathered; illuminated; ossified; pie-eyed; polluted; primed; stewed; stinko; squiffy; tanked and woozled.
He considered the dynamic forces of history as being the hopes and aspirations of people that took the form of ideas, and were often ossified into ideologies.
In the upper limbs, only the diaphyses of the long bones and scapula are ossified.
Ossified patellae are absent in most modern marsupials, though a small number of exceptions are reported and epipubic bones are present.
Predatory Dinosaurs of the World. 277. Allosaurus had gastralia (belly ribs), but these are not common findings, and they may have ossified poorly.
Sesamoid bones are small ossified nodes embedded in the tendons to provide extra leverage and reduce pressure on the underlying tissue.
The atlas is usually ossified from three centers.
The bones are fully ossified and the vertebrae interlock with each other by means of overlapping processes.
Their bones are better ossified and their skeletons stronger than those of amphibians.
Their skulls are mostly broad and short, and are often incompletely ossified.
The long period of Brezhnev's rule had come to be dubbed one of "standstill", with an aging and ossified top political leadership.
The young turks within SF also had an ossified 'ancient regime' to topple: John Campbell's intolerant right-wing editorials for 'Astounding Science Fiction' (which he renamed 'Analog' in 1960) teetered on the self parody.
Common combinations with ossified
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: