[ US /ˈstoʊni/ ]
[ UK /stˈə‍ʊni/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
    the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart
    his flinty gaze
  2. abounding in rocks or stones
    stony ground
    rocky fields
    bouldery beaches
  3. hard as granite
    a granitic fist
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How To Use stony In A Sentence

  • It has full-size trees, sand banks leading down to a stony beach, and water cascading down a rock outcrop.
  • But I was going through a reclusive and non-communicative phase, and his efforts to talk to me, to establish genuine communication, were met with a stony and moody silence.
  • This ecoregion is home to nine times as many stony corals as live in the Caribbean Sea and more than twice the number found in the Indian Ocean.
  • The road was rough and stony, the track always rising. Times, Sunday Times
  • At 500 metres high, the soil is stony. Food Watch
  • Over against its left flank was a German "fortin," known to us as Stony Mountain, bristling with machine guns, guns which later did terrible execution. War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
  • Plants grow in a wide variety of inhospitable substrates including stone, rock (epilithic), recently decomposed stony soils, or sandy soils. Campos Rupestres montane savanna
  • Many of those parts consist of stony-iron materials known as asteroids and many of these rocky bodies have yet to be discovered and could impact with Earth at any time. Earth Large | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
  • The Stonyfield multipack cups are not compostable and not recyclable yet, because only one U.S. facility that recycles PLA. Stonyfield Organic Yogurt Unveils New Packaging Made From Corn
  • Where the stony track turns sharp left and levels out, head straight on through a gate up along a track climbing to reach another gate at the top of the hill.
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