stony

Example Sentences

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They sit in stony silence because they are watching their life’s work being systematically dismantled.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

The long and winding route to his house takes us through the back gardens of Palestinian homes, and along stony pathways, to a hill overlooking the neighbourhood.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

But it was his grittiest—and that’s all Indiana needed for its famously stony coach to drop the scowl.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

It's a pipe that snakes under the stony beach and out into the Atlantic, sucking up seawater and bringing it onshore.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025

Florence and Elizabeth worked as cleaning-women in a high, vast, stony office-building on Wall Street.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin