Synonym: bouldered, bouldery, flinty, granitelike, granitic, obdurate, rocklike, rocky. Similar words: Tony, cottony, antonym, monotony, metonymy, gluttony, stone, histone. Meaning: ['stəʊnɪ] adj. 1. abounding in rocks or stones 2. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings 3. hard as granite.
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31. Joseph's words fell on stony ground.
32. Normally this was met with a stony stare.
33. Alan's charming smile fell on stony ground with her.
34. She had analysed four of the specimens and found that each belonged to a completely different class of stony meteorite!
35. Ana was going down the stony path,(http://sentencedict.com/stony.html) almost at the gates.
36. And the secret past of stony -faced consultant Julian Chapman emerges in the shape of a failed marriage and a drink problem.
37. She is staring into a large stone bowl held aloft by stony lions.
38. They require considerable power, and are easily damaged on stony ground.
39. In addition, new data strengthen the idea that a group of nine unusual stony meteorites may have come from Mars.
40. Whatever their hairstyles, serious critics mostly maintained a stony silence.
41. Some initiatives have already fallen on stony ground, but, as we see in subsequent features, others keep coming.
42. The treating, perhaps fortunately, cut his visit short for after a few nights of festivities he was stony broke.
43. She marched across the courtyard into the house, her eyes stony and her jaw set.
44. Hauling it by its ugly leather straps she took a tentative step on the little stony path.
45. An unforgiving managerial continuum reaching from the father to the oldest remembered paternal relative sits in stony judgment.
46. Ned appeared to be whispering sweet nothings in her ear but his attentions were being met with a stony silence!
47. Most stony meteorites range from about 1, 500 atmospheres down to about 100 atmospheres in crushing strength.
48. Even if the comets had strengths comparable to that of stony asteroids, they still could not fit the Tunguska observations.
49. Similarly, granting a carbonaceous object the strength of a stony asteroid would allow it to penetrate to comparable altitudes.
50. The landscape is a stony desert, smeared here and there with sulphur compounds.
51. No one, not even Challenger, would see what lay beneath its stony carapace.
52. Sethe rubbed and rubbed, pressing the work cloth and the stony curves that made up his knee.
53. To avoid further childishness Leonora took refuge in stony, obdurate silence.
54. The sea bottom is stony, so we strongly recommend you always sail with something on your feet.
55. You have obviously suffered considerable ill treatment and you are stony broke.
56. The men arrested at Stony Stratford were sent north for safekeeping.
57. Kitty stood against the back wall, stony, her face blotchy from tears wept in solitude.
58. Stony Stratford was the town nearest to Wolverton, and by comparison it had considerable charm.
59. He pushed aside a woman kneeling on the stony ground.
60. Go through gate at the bottom, cross the boggy ground to a stony lane.
More similar words: Tony, cottony, antonym, monotony, metonymy, gluttony, stone, histone, boston, stonewall, rest on, piston, stonework, gallstone, stone age, keystone, sandstone, gemstone, brimstone, gladstone, insist on, hailstone, astonish, whetstone, millstone, tombstone, subsist on, flagstone, moonstone, lodestone.