Sentence examples for as a stone from inspiring English sources

The phrase "as a stone" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is very solid, unyielding, or emotionally unresponsive.
Example: "He stood there as a stone, showing no reaction to the news."
Alternatives: "like a rock" or "as solid as a rock."

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I was as hard as a stone salute.

Others keep them as clipped as a stone wall.

It was used by the popes and the princes of later Italy as a stone quarry.

Feet develop sores from something as simple as a stone they cannot feel in a shoe.

The seat was as straight as an arrow, and as hard as a stone.

He worked as a stone mason and landscaper in neighbors' gardens, gaining more outdoor experience.

"Papa," one of the Terrace's oldest residents, sat in a wheelchair, still as a stone.

The baby had dropped and my belly was as hard as a stone.

Then suddenly he saw Stein's face as a stone mask, a totemic sculptural object.

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President Bush the elder comes off as a stone-hearted prisoner to business interests, President Clinton as an amoral narcissist.

The unusual property is described as a "stone-built single storey former public convenience arranged beneath a pitched tiled roof".

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