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• The car jolted along the stony path.From the entry jolt
• The waves overwashed the stony beach.From the entry overwash
• Irons and stony irons can be much larger than stony meteorites and are much more visually striking, but make up only a few percent of all meteorites.From the entry iron
• Maybe they mistook the cool stony outdoorsiness of it for unwashed clothes.2016, A.F. Harrold, “Tuesday”, in The Song from Somewhere Else, London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry outdoorsiness
• Divergent paths would become stony, enter dark woods and descend through sloughs of despond.1996, Tom Turner, “Metaphorical Plans”, in City as Landscape: A Post Post-modern View of Design and Planning, London; New York, N.Y.: E. &…. From the entry slough of despond
• The circus people proceeded, amid macambiras and across stony ground, taking turns pulling the wagon.1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 267. From the entry macambira
• The area has stony soil and is short of water resources.1975, Hsin Chang, “Armymen and Civilians”, in China Pictorial, Peking: China Pictorial, →ISSN, →OCLC, column 2. From the entry Hsiuwu
• The beet of medium length (an intermediate variety) will grow shapelily in shallowly-dug or stony ground.1925 April 15, “Food Paragraphs”, in Derby Daily Telegraph, volume LXXV, number 14,153, page 6. From the entry shapelily
• Disk plows also are better suited to rough, stony, and rooty ground because the disks ride over the obstructions.2012, Douglas M. Considine, Foods and Food Production Encyclopedia, page 2023. From the entry rooty
• Unlike stony corals and other anthozoa, whose polyps have sixfold symmetry, the polyps of a gorgonian have eightfold symmetry.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 134. From the entry anthozoon
• I fell silent under her stony glare.2007, Cory Doctorow, Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present, Thunder's Mouth Press, →ISBN. From the entry reality distortion field
• Rapid his progress who petrifies these innocents into stony history.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 178. From the entry aspectant
• The stony outcrops are often covered but thinly with arable soil; winters are bitingly cold, and rainfall scanty and unpredictable.1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 49. From the entry but
• From each candlelit nook stared in stony despair one after another saint, regal and rueful: proffering forgiveness, peace, a todo.1970, Wilfrido D. Nolledo, chapter 19, in But for the Lovers, Dalkey Archive Press, page 165. From the entry empty
• The approved variety of chalcitis is honey-coloured, and streaked with fine veins and is friable and not stony.1966 June 1, Forbes, Studies in Ancient Technology, BRILL, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry sori
• Far away, on the stony garrigues by the fading light of the harvest moon one could hear the musical calling of wolves.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 246. From the entry garrigue
• A big round grey rock, like the upper half of an egg, poked out of the water about a mile from the stony headland.1963, Sylvia Plath, chapter 13, in The Bell Jar, London: Faber & Faber, published 1971. From the entry poke out
• Over all, from the centre of the sideboard, a bust of the old Queen, diademmed and Garter-ribboned, threw a glance of stony approbation.1922 March, Orlo Williams, “An Interior”, in Leonard Huxley, editor, The Cornhill Magazine, London: John Murray, […], page 347. From the entry diademmed
• I saw a flash on the stony hill on the other side of the pool, as if a mirror were reflecting the light cast by the hole in Dr.2015, Colleen Houck, Reawakened, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN. From the entry adder stone
• Daylight revealed that the so-called summit was near the edge of a shallow, stony dish, which terminated abruptly in steep slopes, and actually offered poor fields of fire.2006 September 14, Richard Holmes, Martin Marix Evans, A Guide to Battles: Decisive Conflicts in History, OUP Oxford, →ISBN. From the entry dish
• Indeed, non-Southerners may feel themselves "y'alled" to death down here, yet even the most stony- faced New Englander will be charmed by the warmth of the Cloister's staff.1997, Terence Sieg, Golf travel's guide to the world's greatest golf destinations: the ultimate resource for the discriminating golfer. From the entry y'all
• He then goes on his way at a steady pace that does not tire him, climbing up slopes or down ravines, traversing scrubland caatinga or stony ground.1984, Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, translation of La guerra del fin del mundo by Mario Vargas Llosa…. From the entry caatinga
• From the height of the boardwalk the sea lay before them, silver and stony, fold on fold of it, stretching east into the mist and clouds.1963 winter, Josephine W[inslow] Johnson, “Coney Island in November”, in The Virginia Quarterly Review, volume 39, number 1…. From the entry boardwalk
• With each sudden pierce of lightning, the girl imagined she was hanging from the eaves as some sightless, hearingless, throatless, stony gargoyle -- a lifeless condition that would offer safety.2010, Patricia East, Wherever Snow Falls, page 1. From the entry hearingless

Meaning of stony

1. adjective As hard as stone.
2. adjective Containing or made up of stones.
3. adjective Of a person, lacking warmth and emotion.

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Questions about stony in a sentence

How do you use stony in a sentence?

Stony is used as an adjective. For example: “The car jolted along the stony path.”

What is a short sentence with stony?

“a stony grandmother”

What does stony mean?

Stony means as hard as stone.