Sentence examples for stony surface from inspiring English sources

The stony surface of a gravel garden is nothing other than a mulch.

Ferns, forests and grasses ultimately furred our planet's stony surface, sculpting land and climate and paving the way for animals.

This was the same effect that we saw 15 years ago with Thrust SSC running on the stony surface of a Jordanian Desert.

36 Aristotle says (De Mundo 4) that "those earthquakes are called 'Brastae' which heave up and down at right angles". 37 The antecedent of "it" in Poseidonius must have been "what is now the stony surface of the plain". 38 Poseidonius was thinking of both the congealing and petrifying of the waters.

Think that Ron Swanson is all stony surface with no emotional backbone?

Pale gray-green lichens glow on their stony surfaces, as they are dusted with snow.

Peeling paint and a broken-down wagon appeared in one tatty "Figaro" set; muted lights by Jeff Harris and gray, stony surfaces served efficiently for "Tosca".

Contrary to desert stereotypes, sand dunes are nearly nonexistent, and stony desert surfaces are seldom visible except in the far southwestern portion of the state.

The surface is stony and rocky, with great accumulations of friable rock, broken up by frost weathering in the intensely cold climate occurring at such high elevations.

The seed has a multilayered stony exotesta with alveolate surface, parenchymatous mesotesta, and operculate inner integument, which are characteristic to extant trimeniaceous seeds.

The seed, which is the oldest yet found for the family, indicates; 1) Some seed coat structures of Trimeniaceae have been conserved for about 100 million years, including the multilayered stony exotesta with alveolate surface, parenchymatous mesotesta, and operculate inner integument.