| The flat bones ossify directly from such fibrous tissue rather than from intermediary cartilage. |
| The postcranial skeleton, and especially the vertebrae, carpals and tarsals, were very slow to ossify. |
| The problem with union rights requiring judges and courts to uphold them is that they ossify and become the target of lawyers and others who wish to destroy them. |
| In short, rather than incarnating societies' dynamism, it may sometimes ossify their structures and regulations. |
| If we did this, our cities would stand still, ossify and die. |
| Perhaps in the end the boutiques will themselves multiply and ossify into sterile chains. |
