stony

Example Sentences

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"People didn't react like 'oh what a great guy', it was the opposite of that. It was a stony silence. There seemed to be so little connection with the UK, which struck me as odd."

From BBC

Much of the action takes place inside Perpetual Fortitude’s stony walls but cleverly, the weather outside shifts along with the mood.

From Los Angeles Times

She stared, fascinated, at the strange rock formations that furnished this stony room.

From Literature

The carriage bounced and rattled along the stony streets, at times so violently it seemed as if the wheels would shatter.

From Literature

As a Colored woman, my neck had constantly been beneath the stony foot of racial segregation, so collapsing under the weight of a bad twist of fate was a luxury I did not have.

From Literature