stony

Example Sentences

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Much of the action takes place inside Perpetual Fortitude’s stony walls but cleverly, the weather outside shifts along with the mood.

From Los Angeles Times

They control the real-life troops as in a computer game but their faces are stony, their focus total.

From BBC

Entering a local restaurant, he is greeted with stony stares; a white woman points toward the colored entrance.

From Los Angeles Times

Using optical and electron microscopy, Harris and his team determined the rock was a chondrite - the most abundant type of stony meteorite, according to Nasa - which meant that it was approximately 4.56 billion years old.

From BBC

His world is the pastureland, the stony hills of the Jordan Valley, his sheep and cattle, the bed and breakfast he has opened.

From BBC