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