Sentence examples for was stony from inspiring English sources
adjective
As hard as stone.
Reid's gaze was stony, but there was sadness in his eyes.
And there was stony silence on this end of the phone.
His reception was stony, and many unions are now talking of large, co-ordinated strikes across the public sector.
Tasting the wines in the near-dark, I thought the 2006 was stony and crisply dry, while the vintage from just two years earlier had more peach fruitiness in the mouth and far less minerality.
Inspiration on that one never really struck, and when the Parisian impresario François Ravard turned up one day – himself formerly a teenage runaway from provincial France, and a young protégé of Serge Gainsbourg – he found that Marianne was stony broke but still persuading the not-so-local mini-cab company regularly to bring her fags.
Back in 1927, Jay Lovestone, then a bigwig in the Communist Party U.S.A. (and later the guru of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s anti-Communist activities abroad), tried to explain to the Comrades in the Kremlin that there were reasons why America was stony ground for Bolshevism.
I was calling on a millionairess, or someone who was stony-broke, depending on the gossip.
Everybody was stony-faced, including some cadres, who were trying to figure out what was going on.
"Georgia said absolutely nothing, she was stony-faced as she got out of the car," Patricia said.
The country was stony-broke, yet conscription emphasised the mirage of its importance on the world stage.
Outside, he was stony-faced as he was chased down the street by a handful of ageing campaigners.
