have stoned
- present perfect of stone.
Example Sentences
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But if the ignorant and the violent could have stoned him, his calm manner would still have said, 'Strike, but hear me.'
From Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Coke, Henry J. (Henry John)
Had the telegraph been invented in the days of ancient Rome, would the Romans have accepted it, or have stoned Wheatstone?
From The Fixed Period by Trollope, Anthony
And those who choose to record their names in opposition are free to do so, as are also the tribe of persecutors who in all ages have stoned the prophets.
From Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846 The Advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements by Porter, Rufus
Not only so; he sent messengers through Manasseh, Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they came up to meet him, the very people who a few months before would have stoned him.
From Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers by Rutherford, Mark
The Roman public wanted to see Greek life and Greek depravity; it would have stoned the poet who had ventured to bring on the stage a Roman patrician or a Roman matron.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
