stone
noun
the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
had stoned
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past perfectof stone.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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By nine o'clock they had filled four baskets and had stoned more than half, and laid them in a shallow pan with sugar over them "to draw", as Grizzel explained.
From The Happy Adventurers by Lydia Miller Middleton
The men who had come near to killing M. de Gontaut, who had stoned M. de St. Alais, quailed before a woman!
From The Red Cockade by Stanley John Weyman
For days the Astoria Hotel looked and smelled like a wrecked saloon after Carrie Nation and her associates had stoned it.
From The Russian Revolution; the Jugo-Slav Movement by Robert Joseph Kerner
Once I had stoned the steps as usual, but the madam grew angry as soon as she saw them.
From Thirty Years a Slave by Louis Hughes
When she measured the raisins which Ephraim had stoned she cast a sharp glance at him, but he was ready for it with beseechingly upturned sickly face.
From Pembroke A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
