Explore Stony through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like granitic or heartless. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Stony meaning
- As hard as stone.
- Containing or made up of stones.
- Lacking warmth and emotion.
Synonyms of Stony
Using Stony
- The main meaning on this page is: As hard as stone. | Containing or made up of stones. | Lacking warmth and emotion.
- Useful related words include: granitic, rocklike, granitelike, heartless.
- In the example corpus, stony often appears in combinations such as: stony brook, at stony, in stony.
Context around Stony
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stony
- In this selection, "stony" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pond, kettle, owns, brook, brookside and hill stand out and add context to how "stony" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 15 at stony brook university and 1978 s stony island which. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stony" sits close to words such as analytica, bauer and camouflage, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stony
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Goodman is currently being held at the Stony Mountain Institution. (10 words)
Against Stony Brook, the Harvard transfer was all over the floor making winning plays. (14 words)
Dreiser College, at Stony Brook University located in Stony Brook, New York, is named after him. (16 words)
He was known to have been at the Inn at Long Trail in Killington that day and a witness that night saw him farther east on the trail at the Stony Brook Shelter, police said. (35 words)
Associate professor of broadcast journalism at Stony Brook University, New York, Steven Reiner, led the workshop in Abuja and Lagos as part of activities to commemorate this year’s World Press Freedom Day. (33 words)
Stony Brook jumped out to a 16-11 lead after the first quarter, with junior forward India Pagan contributing five points off of Stony Brook’s paltry 28% field goal shooting. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
It is imperative that every elected official work together to restore the Stony Brook Mill Pond, Stony Brook Grist Mill and Avalon Park’s primary access route.
He points to the depression, addiction and alcohol abuse he sees all over the reserve; not only on Stony Point, but throughout the larger Kettle & Stony Point First Nation.
Stony Brook jumped out to a 16-11 lead after the first quarter, with junior forward India Pagan contributing five points off of Stony Brook’s paltry 28% field goal shooting.
Elyse Buchman, who owns Stony Brookside Bed & Bike Inn in Stony Brook along with husband Marty, said she knows many who will use the trail.
A home on Stony Brook Road was condemned after the Town of Brookhaven found the homeowner had the garage and basement illegally converted into apartments that housed Stony Brook University students.
One hundred of Price’s collectible potatoes will be on display until June 15 at Stony Brook University’s Charles B. Wang Center in Stony Brook, New York.
Dreiser College, at Stony Brook University located in Stony Brook, New York, is named after him.
A building on the compound of the Homestead Place of Safety off St Christopher Road in Stony Hill, St Andrew.
Against Stony Brook, the Harvard transfer was all over the floor making winning plays.
Associate professor of broadcast journalism at Stony Brook University, New York, Steven Reiner, led the workshop in Abuja and Lagos as part of activities to commemorate this year’s World Press Freedom Day.
Both feature a rich diversity of stony coral species, indicating that they likely formed over thousands of years.
But in the two years since the announcement, Stony Brook has moved aggressively to live up to its new title, advertising its new status widely to recruit students and donors.
Five young children were thrown from a top-floor tenement window onto the hard stony ground below with only one intention in mind – to kill them all.
For her part, Fidelis Vieira de Sá is thrilled to join Del Poeta’s lab at Stony Brook.
Goodman is currently being held at the Stony Mountain Institution.
He was known to have been at the Inn at Long Trail in Killington that day and a witness that night saw him farther east on the trail at the Stony Brook Shelter, police said.
He will be back in town later this week to talk about his first movie, 1978′s “Stony Island,” which launched his career as an A-list moviemaker.
I also thought about all the scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University I have known who are working towards cures for cancer.
ICE arrested the 31-year-old Guatemalan on a warrant in Stony Point, New York, Dec. 12, to the agency.
In October of 2022, Abbi was driving on Route 347, just south of Stony Brook University, when she was slammed from behind by another vehicle.
Common combinations with stony
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- stony brook 118×
- at stony 28×
- in stony 20×
- the stony 19×
- of stony 14×
- stony plain 11×
- to stony 10×
- stony point 9×
- and stony 9×
- stony creek 8×