Sentence examples for instead of stone from inspiring English sources

The kitchen appliances, though, are white, not stainless, and we have Formica on the kitchen tops instead of stone.

In offset lithography the image is transferred from zinc or aluminum plates instead of stone, and in photoengraving such plates are superimposed with film and then etched.

It is a cemetery for the poor, all sand and weeds, with many graves marked by pressed metal instead of stone.

The Ortners' original design was more radical, with steel and glass construction instead of stone, and a tall Library Tower that made the complex visible from afar.

One hack wants a stepped silhouette; another wants an Art Deco crown; a third wants an avant-garde fold; a fourth wants glass instead of stone.

"So how do you build that into pixels instead of stone?" For centuries banks were built with thick stone walls, marble slab floors and heavy metal doors, all of which gave customers the feeling that bankers were dependable and trustworthy.

"In a way this position is itself a protest, weirdly operated with money instead of stones and fire," she adds.

* If black marmots (Tarbagan marmot, Marmota sibirica) put stones in front of the burrow as snow barrier, dzud will occur; gray marmots put their faeces instead of stones (TN02).

Instead of stone-faced bodybuilders or martial arts experts, Die Hard had John McClane, an everyman New York cop with only street smarts and a sense of humor on his side who seemed as surprised as anyone to be an action hero.

The Imperial system uses the term stone instead of pounds—stone is the equivalent of 14 U.S. pounds.

Parallelograms, now sheathed in glass instead of cast stone, the towers rise like upended prisms.