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

With red-studded stones wrapped across both hands, the actress told the BBC the look had been in development since the beginning of the year.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

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

From Salon • May 9, 2026

In one scene it lingers for what struck me as an inexplicably, even discomfitingly long time on the handsome face of a young sociopath pranking a pair of little kids with small stones.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

For the rest of the walk he spared me the pressure of trying to sound intelligent, addressing me only to point out loose stones or other hazards of the street made invisible by the dark.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse