Sentence examples similar to was still stone from inspiring English sources

It is not clear whether she married him or converted to Islam, but she was still stoned to death by a crowd of local Yazidi men, who were enraged that she had degraded herself and their honour.

In early June, BP was still stone-walling scientists, the government and the public on just how much oil was pouring into the Gulf.

They have been wearing jumpers to bed for weeks, and as the deal was announced on Friday morning, their radiators and hot-water taps were still stone cold.

Emil is still languishing in jail, Signe is forging ahead with her hemp farm, with no sign yet of her handball-playing ex-boyfriend, Frederick and Solveig are acclimatising themselves to reduced circumstances, Thomas is still stoned and Gro – well Gro has been up to no good with her mother's sculptures.

The Taliban are still stoning the people, and killing them.

Especially in a world where women are still stoned to death.

In some cultures, women are still stoned for having sex outside of marriage, or married off to their rapist to save the family's "honor".

Whatever, I wish I was still 12 stone and sickly and could smoke a pack of cigarettes before breakfast without throwing up.

"He was still as stone but eventually he came to.

Of course, since I was still in stone-cold b*tch mode, I was beyond irritated with her and ended up leaving the room in the middle of the session.

Odigo was still a sharp stone in AOL's boot.