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set in stone

ADJECTIVE
  1. no longer changeable
    the agreement is not yet set in stone

How To Use set in stone In A Sentence

  • The only time you get a bit apprehensive is when plans need to be set in stone. The Sun
  • In this competitive climate, no fees are set in stone.
  • In reality the divide is a relatively recent development, perhaps set in stone in perceptions by moments of mutual cultural hostility between Europe and America. Rabah Ghezali: When Capital Punishment is a Crime: the Atlantic Divide Over the Death Penalty
  • And tremble at my agedness: apparently my taste in pop was set in stone twenty-nine years ago. Yatima » 2009 » March
  • HOLLYWOOD-style handprints have been set in stone to mark a major modernisation scheme at York District Hospital.
  • But until any policy is set in stone, this may not be enough to calm buyers' jitters. Times, Sunday Times
  • After all, our neural pathways are not set in stone. Times, Sunday Times
  • This evolving and emergent property of grammar is not recognised in static formalist grammars like TG grammar, which tend to imply that the structures they so elegantly diagrammitise are set in stone. X is for X-bar Theory « An A-Z of ELT
  • But until any policy is set in stone, this may not be enough to calm buyers' jitters. Times, Sunday Times
  • In short, the cutoff date for analog TV may not be set in stone, but consumers are transitioning on their own terms.
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