Sentence examples for stones- from inspiring English sources

They shouldn't start throwing stones at Luxembourg".

She had remained sprightly throughout, recalling how they "scampered down over the stones after the manner of the goats... clearing the ground at a famous speed" to get down the valley.

The only problem is trying to do that at tracks in the UK... there's spikes come off people's shoes and stones and whatever else so you could end up getting injured.

There were about 300 men, some calling for the toppling of the regime and throwing stones at the security forces.

But as Australia joins the 190-plus other countries navigating the climate stepping stones, it's hard to know whether the Aussies are wearing rubber thongs (those are flip-flops to foreigners) or appropriately stout walking boots.

It might have been a while since wild parties raged into the night or naked bodies hauled themselves on to the hot stones at the water's edge.

He recounts joining a reprisal party in the mid-1860s, while mayor, for the killers of a shepherd: "They got on top of a big mound & defied us & smacked their buttocks at us & hurled large stones down on us, & hid themselves behind large trees and huge rocks but some of them paid dearly for their bravado.

Stories grounded in the landscape also loom large, in customs such as choosing the gleaning queen when the harvest is brought in, or bumping heads against boundary stones to affirm the limits of the local world.

Grainge took over Universal in the UK when it was level pegging with EMI; one company invested steadily, the other didn't, and Universal launched the better acts, whether Amy Winehouse or Girls Aloud, or wooed them, from the Rolling Stones to Take That.

Hodgson is confident Gary Cahill, who was substituted near the end and applied ice to an ankle, will be fit for the game against Switzerland – ranked ninth in the world to England's 20th and Norway's 53rd – with John Stones, on his first start, having suffered cramp late on.

This is a young squad but, apart from John Stones, all of those starting this game were at the World Cup and felt that disappointment.