Sentence examples for chunks of stone from inspiring English sources

Taxi drivers protesting measures to open their sector to competition hacked chunks of stone from sidewalks and hurled them at riot officers.

Running through the plantings along the eastern perimeter, for about 760 feet, are heavy wire cages, 18 inches wide, filled with broken chunks of stone.

We passed farmers with wooden plows drawn by oxen, turning up soil and chunks of stone so crystalline they gave light back to the sun.

Island Lake stretched out next to us, fed by trickling streams that we had to hop over or cross on chunks of stone.

Television images showed that one elaborate steeple had fallen over and large chunks of stone work had crumbled away on the other.

Diego Della Valle, chairman of Tod's, the shoe and leather empire, offered last year to donate €25 million to restore the Colosseum in Rome, where chunks of stone have been tumbling from the amphitheater and its arches.

After the Israelis pulled out, Mr. Arafat emerged defiant, nearly carried by bodyguards over a wrecked car, bulldozed dirt and chunks of stones at the entrance to his once-impressive headquarters, a police station built by the British after World War I, now a wreck.

It was ludicrous, but equally hilarious, to see me pounding pegs into the wood with a huge chunk of stone.

The structure's abundant ornamentation makes it appear to have been chiseled out of a single chunk of stone.

A chunk of stone comes out with various cylinders and cubes, which Suave Dave describes rather too quickly.

You may even spot a chunk of stone on the cathedral grounds that has fallen from a wall above.