The word "stony" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is made of or covered with stone, figuratively or literally. For example, you could say, "I crossed the stony path and entered the forest."
With Nick Clegg stepping down – he would be an ideal candidate to succeed Sir Malcolm Rifkind as chair of parliament's intelligence and security committee – his successor faces a stony path in whichever direction he looks.
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From 1951 to 1962 the AEC detonated more than 100 bombs, sending huge pinkish plumes of radioactive dust across the stony valleys and canyons of southern Utah and northern Arizona.
Nick Clegg, with so much egg over him in recent weeks that he was in danger of turning into an omelette, is stony faced with only a tiny smile as he realises that, at last, his coalition partner is the one who has said the stupid thing.
Some historians hold that the tomb scene in Romeo and Juliet, with its "stony" sepulchre in which the tragic lovers end their lives, has similarities to the decaying, tomb-crowded interior of the church.
Efforts to persuade the European Central Bank to tear up its own rulebook and loosen the noose – by easing limits on cash flows to Greek banks – have fallen on stony ground.
He sat stony-faced in the dock, staring straight ahead throughout yesterday's 20-minute hearing.
Mr Modi sat stony-faced as they fawned.
In October, the then prime minister, Lionel Jospin, remained in stony-faced silence even as the crowd threw bottles at two of his ministers, both women.
The work of government was "hard", Mr Cameron told stony-faced workers.Two-thirds of voters now disapprove of Mr Cameron's performance and three-quarters disdain Mr Clegg's.
Female workers whooped, while many men stayed stony-faced.
