ossify - use in sentences

Object

  • society: We reject it because it favors a selected group of dominant beliefs and tends to ossify society around them.
  • structure: Ian Johnson describes a China caught between the desire for change growing from below and the ossified political structure above.
  • form: Modernist impatience with ossified form is frequently misunderstood; Sinclair's dissatisfaction with words is the iconoclasm of an image-maker, not a nihilist.
  • part: So, exercise can be extremely good for your bones, IF the exercise puts strains of fairly high magnitude on your ossified parts.

Preposition: into

  • dogma: For permaculture to remain alive - and not ossify into dogma - it must also change.

Modifying Another Word

  • not: For permaculture to remain alive - and not ossify into dogma - it must also change.

Preposition: from

  • center: It ossifies from 14 centers through an elaborate schedule and timetable of ossification which eventually achieves the alignment of the face.

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