Sentence examples for stone turning from inspiring English sources
Celebrity is the modern alchemist's stone, turning dross to glamour, converting events otherwise destined for obscurity into fabled occasions.
He held the bright blade against the moving stone, turning the edge little by little with infinite delicacy.
27 Aug Mini Beasts and Clay Critters: younger children can search for centipedes, millipedes, beetles, spiders and worms using magnifying glasses, bug pots, leaf shaking, log lifting and stone turning.
This can sometimes result in the stone turning yellow, red, brown, colorless or most often, green.
Leaving the oils on the stone actually helps season the stone, turning it into a slicker, more easy-to-use item.
Stone turns his considerable powers of concrete evocation to describing Amesbury's almost mythically dystopian landscape, populated by the indigent and the mentally unstable.
When disparate teams of musicians attempt to realize one musician's ideas, every song becomes yet another stone turned over rather than one put in place.
At one point, the stone turned up in a flooded New Orleans warehouse after Hurricane Katrina; at another it was shown to Vidal Sassoon and the late TV host Merv Griffin.
Any woman could play the dowdy outcast at a bridal shower, but Ms. Stone turned that character into the rasping, earnest misfit Wallis, holding her own in the sketch opposite Kristen Wiig.
The faux stone turned up during an excavation of the ancient city of Mashkan-shapir, about 80 kilometers south of Baghdad, Iraq.
It is the emergent product of a mind continually immersed in controversy and ever obliged to rethink old positions in light of new exigencies, obliged to turn yet again the stone turned so many times before.
