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stony

(= rocky, bouldery) abounding in rocks or stones rocky fields stony ground bouldery beaches (= granitic) hard as granite a granitic fist (= flinty, obdurate) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings his flinty gaze the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart

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  • What words describe ground with lots of rocks in it?

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Simple sentences

When he was asked why he had done that, he maintained a stony silence.
Tom's joke was met with stony silence.

Movie subtitles

The usherette at the door looked at us with stony contempt.
It will be a long and stony path to follow. A toilsome path.
Last night, I hear, they lay at Northampton. At Stony-Stratford will they be tonight.
You're from here, from these stony hills.
And a new heart also will I give you. And a new spirit put within you, and I will tear out the stony heart of flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
It was a terrible, stony face.
The kind who'd look at a mountain and see a watershed look at a forest and see lumber for houses look at a stony field and see a farm.
Across the world, we've trod the stony path from defeat to final victory.
A dried out, godforsaken dusty stony desert.
Stony Flats.
The wagon takes five and a half minutes to cross Stony Flats.
With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls. For stony limits cannot hold love out, and what love can do that dares love attempt.
Like the ancient Egyptians, I'm going to send an expedition south to Qattara. Across the Qattara Depression, through the cliffs of the Siwah Pass, over the great sand sea, through the stony desert, and crash into Caprus Magna.
I mean, it wasn'tjust Stony.
I'm stony.
What a pity! Not even an old woman can touch your stony heart!
Lovely, too, even if that stony face doesn't seem to think so.
Lts contents tally exactly with the makeup of an aerolite stony-iron meteorite composed entirely of silicates.
I'm stony broke - is that the phrase?
Not once had a smile lit that stony, sunless face.
Same old stony! It's the government's fault.
For stony limits cannot hold love out, and what love can do that dares love attempt.
I reside on a stony beach, which sinks into a sheltering ocean.
Stony creek?
The kind who would look at the mountain and see a watershed look at the forest and see lumber for houses look at a stony field and see a farm.
Stony Flats. The War Wagon.
His eyes were bent fixedly before him, throughout his body reigned stony rigidity.
It's a stony mineral concretion formed abnormally in the kidney.
We put iron on their feet so they can walk our stony roads, and saddles so they can be ridden.
Show a stony heart and sink them with it!
With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls,...for stony limits cannot hold love out,...and what love can do, that dares love attempt.
Stony? Stony? Man, they're gonna kill me.
Er, I'm stony-broke.

News and current affairs

In repose (as witnessed on the split screen in the reaction shots) he was often perfectly immobile, almost stony, as if posing for a portrait.
STONY BROOK, NY - Iran's continued unrest, now extending through the 30th anniversary of the revolution that toppled the Shah, raises the question of whether the Islamic Republic is about to fall.
But the stony reality is that it is by no means obvious that they are.
Because it is so obviously in every player's interest to avoid outright conflict, we have stony handshakes like that between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Beijing last month.
China's attacks have pushed Li, after almost three weeks of stony silence, to do something he had never done before: strike back.
Khatami's attempts to open a dialogue with the West fell on stony ground in President George W. Bush's Washington, and eventually he was replaced by the populist hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
STONY BROOK - Whenever I hear about Islamic State militants bulldozing archaeological treasures and smashing sculptures and statues, I think about the assault on the scientific process being carried out by US politicians.

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