How to Use stony in a Sentence

stony

adjective
  • She gave him a stony stare.
  • Brain coral is a hard coral, also known as a stony coral or reef builder.
    — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
  • At first, the city used the stony ridge for woodlots and rain catchments.
    — William J. Broad, New York Times, 5 June 2018
  • His face remains stony as his eyes dart from one corner to the other.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Standing in the canyon is like watching the Earth gnash stony teeth.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2024
  • But some people encounter my stony glare and ask if the sun is bothering me.
    — Sarah Garfinkel, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024
  • One is a stony oubliette with crystals growing out of the walls.
    — Erin Alberty, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Maintaining those stony faces was the best acting those sales reps ever did.
    — Mike Royce, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2023
  • In historical times such fields were called ‘stony fields’ by farmers.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
  • New arrivals get smaller, stony plots, big enough to grow household greens, but not a surplus.
    — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Stein derives from the word stone in German and refers to the stony soils found in this vineyard.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The almost monastic stillness is broken by the rush of waves rolling onto the stony beach.
    — Trish Lorenz, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Colorful sponges cover their stony faces and layers of vibrant coral grow around their shape.
    — Don Jaucian, CNN, 16 June 2017
  • Their average vine has 30 years of age and is planted in stony limestone soils.
    — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 12 June 2025
  • Emerson, a stony, muck-brown figure enveloped in shadow, has the look of the undead.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Reveille’s stony facade greets visitors at the top of a winding driveway.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 14 June 2024
  • One of the game’s stoniest wills had been ground into exhaustion, broken.
    — S.l. Price, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2017
  • His stony reaction to the red card in the moment did not betray any sense of injustice.
    — Liam Twomey, New York Times, 21 June 2025
  • The missives, with rare exceptions, have been greeted with stony silence.
    — Sam Wood, Philly.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • These vines, rooted deep in the stony soil, embody the character of the land and its native flora.
    — John Mariani, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Teams of workers loaded up donkeys with saddle packs full of sand, leaving stony craters at the water's edge.
    — David A. Taylor, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Murdaugh kept a stony face when the verdicts were read while his only remaining son could be seen wiping tears from his eyes.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Such trees, gnarly and stout, can live for hundreds of years on the harsh, stony landscape of the higher elevations.
    — Robert O'Harrow Jr., Washington Post, 3 June 2022
  • Beneath them, at eye level, a pair of stony-gray wings stands to the left of a photo of similar wings, leathery pink.
    — Heather Lanier, Longreads, 10 Jan. 2023
  • It's now found on reefs in 18 countries and territories, in at least 20 stony coral species.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
  • My friends assure me that I am supposed to cry, as though anything less were an indication of a stony heart.
    — Karen Stabiner, New York Times, 27 June 2018
  • What about a picture of an old horse and two tired, barefoot boys laboring in a stony field, backlit by the late afternoon sun?
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
  • The hike starts on a red dirt path along the banks of Kanarra Creek before veering into the stony creek bed.
    — Melissa Yeager, azcentral, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Or, accept a ride to the stony restaurant and indulge your caving craving over a pile of Skunk Onion Rings.
    — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 12 June 2017
  • Most meteorites are stony, called chondrites, and they can be bought online for as little as $15 per ounce (50 cents per gram).
    — Chris Impey, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023

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