stone

Example Sentences

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“We are back in the stone age,” independent journalist Yoani Sanchez said in a broadcast Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

"We sold the stone in 2014 for eight and a half million dollars. It was bought by a private Asian collector who enjoyed it. She wore it," Fawcett said.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

"We have got young staff working here and at the end of the day, sometimes this is their first port of business, this is their first stepping stone out of school."

From BBC • May 13, 2026

Returning to Craigh na Dun on her own, Claire touches the center stone and is transported to 1743, three years before the Jacobite defeat.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Souilly was barely a hamlet surrounded by farmland, a cluster of small cottages spoking out like a wheel from a modest stone town hall.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse