How to Use stony in a Sentence

stony

adjective

• She gave him a stony stare.
• Clarke did her thing and the HBO exec stayed stony-faced.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 27 Oct. 2018
• At first, the city used the stony ridge for woodlots and rain catchments.
  — William J. Broad, New York Times, 5 June 2018
• Standing in the canyon is like watching the Earth gnash stony teeth.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2024
• Her mother sits very still, straight back and stony face.
  — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• But Trump's praise that night was met with a stony glare as the cameras panned to Gorsuch.
  — CNN, 7 Apr. 2018
• She and her 12-year old son (me) sweated in the August sun putting posts in stony ground.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 10 June 2017
• The senators watched, with stony faces, as Mr. Schiff spoke.
  — Lindsay Wise, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2020
• His face remains stony as his eyes dart from one corner to the other.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 14 Feb. 2024
• When Tai draws a card after Van and Lottie's prodding, her face shifts to a very grave and stony—and familiar!—expression.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 May 2023
• The almost monastic stillness is broken by the rush of waves rolling onto the stony beach.
  — Trish Lorenz, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2019
• From a distance, Scarabeo looks like a jumble of plain white cloth tents dropped by mistake in the middle of the stark, stony Agafay Desert.
  — Krisanne Fordham, CNN, 29 May 2017
• Emerson, a stony, muck-brown figure enveloped in shadow, has the look of the undead.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
• 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
• A diver swims above a garden of stony corals on the Great Barrier Reef, which is more than 1,250 miles long.
  — Rachel Brown, National Geographic, 27 June 2017
• Yes to fresh lobster by the bay, yes to walks through the pines and yes to wading through the salty, stony shores along Acadia National Park.
  — Sally Higginson, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• On one hand, the lab has chronicled the impacts of the lethal stony coral tissue loss disease in the Florida Reef Tract.
  — Cameron Fozi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
• New arrivals get smaller, stony plots, big enough to grow household greens, but not a surplus.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• Maintaining those stony faces was the best acting those sales reps ever did.
  — Mike Royce, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2023
• 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
• Their beehive tents were scattered across a stony valley.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2018
• Reveille’s stony facade greets visitors at the top of a winding driveway.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 14 June 2024
• As Koy cracked his joke, the camera panned to Swift, who showed a stony expression and took a determined sip from her champagne glass.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2024
• One of the game’s stoniest wills had been ground into exhaustion, broken.
  — S.l. Price, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024