stones

Example Sentences

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Shake a bucket of gravel and larger stones will rise to the top as smaller grains sink below.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

The monuments are of all types, including prehistoric burial mounds, Roman forts, early Christian carved stones and industrial mills.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

The city removes the remaining stones to the edge of the park.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

Among those stones was the fossil, which was later donated to the Australian Museum in Sydney.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

We went on down the path with Patch pulling on my hand, veering this way and that to pick up stones for his collection.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff