Sentence examples for kills stone from inspiring English sources

I get Rourke's drift but it kills stone dead the later moment when Hero is discovered to be alive and well.

Furthermore, it does a maturing complexion no favours and kills stone dead any spark of youth that still exists in the eyes.

Surrealism, as the career of Salvador Dali illustrated, is killed stone dead by repetition.

"The possibility of a British Google is killed stone dead," he added.

A Murray backhand clips the top of the net and is killed stone dead.

The falcons, instead of killing stone dead, as they are traditionally supposed to d turned in a messy performance.

Dearlove told the hearing that the proposal had been "killed stone dead" by the officer's line managers.

There is no gag he can't kill stone dead and his comic timing is out by days rather than seconds.

Fortunately, just as you're about to reach for the sick bucket, she adds: "Any potential sex appeal is killed stone dead by his professionalism".

Sources & acknowledgmentsReprintsWhen a Labour government devolved powers over health, education and other public services to Scotland in 1999, the hope was that nationalism would (in the words of George Robertson, an MP) be killed "stone dead".

In the fact that its macroeconomic policies have been more conservative than those of its Conservative predecessor, and have thus killed, stone dead, the old idea that Labour could not be trusted to run the economy competently.