stony

Example Sentences

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The last part of our journey is a climb up a stony hillside.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

Forgotten animal pens, decaying cages and stony backdrops now sit in various states of abandonment.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 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

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