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The phrase "a stone against" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where something is being used as a barrier or obstacle, often metaphorically.
Example: "He felt like a stone against the tide, unable to move forward despite the pressure."
Alternatives: "a barrier to" or "an obstacle in front of".
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"I don't want to see Sivan carrying a gun in front of me, and me carrying a stone against her".
She casts a stone against a wall that reflects her like a mirror and the building collapses.
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What Crivelli's paintings of martyrs lack is a machine that strikes an animatronic stone against a chest, or a pair of pliers rising amusingly to the teeth of a saint who was tortured in dental ways.
She created a hinged ring modeled on Egyptian artifacts that conceals a precious stone against the finger to "make things as sort of personal as possible".
Tucking a carnelian stone in the navel can help relieve menstrual cramps, he said, and pressing a selenite stone against the head is great for migraines.
Rub a sharpening stone against the cut edge of the tile to smooth it.
She leant the whole of her weight, a good seven stone, against a plain wooden walking stick.
He was playing with a stone, hitting it against the rock.
There is a monk who does handstands on his fingertips, one who is suspended on spears, and another who lies on a bed of nails while a monk lying on top of him has a stone slab smashed against him with a hammer.
Of course, I was curious about her house and garden, which includes one of the more enterprising landscape jokes invented: a ha-ha, a stone wall set against the earth, rather than above it, so you think you're viewing a continuous slope.
In large part her post-techno beats were preprogrammed, and she played the keyboard up against them, though the effect was that of water against a stone, a light tickle at best.
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