Example Sentences

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The stonelike art objects they produced initially looked like a “giant Mentos,” says Crowe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2025

There is no sign of the scope of the mission or the consequences of a single misstep in the stonelike calm on the face of Gen. Nahom.

From Washington Times • Oct. 5, 2017

They have made resin trees for Disneyland Paris and resin stonelike decorations for Versailles.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 20, 2017

Of those who survived, many were reduced to a stonelike state similar to a severe form of Parkinson’s disease.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2015

I don’t know, but Mrs. W.’s floor is hard—stone, I think, or at least a stonelike substance—and we have no knee pads with us today.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich