stonewall
verb (used without object)
to engage in stonewalling.
stonewalls
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present tense formof stonewall (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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And then, when Tim stonewalls him about stealing a gun, Gaitok doesn’t respond with the obvious “dude, there’s video.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2025
Sections of historic stonewalls that line roads and mark property boundaries remain.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 29, 2020
Bosch finds out, but when he tries to report his findings, the billionaire’s staff stonewalls him.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2016
The high mountain meadows full of their own wilting flowers, the peaks disappearing in clouds, rain beginning to fall in planets, the stonewalls in their majesty marking out this hallowed piece of land.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 5, 2016
Starting from the assumption that stonewalls make an institution, they professed to tell when the Universities came into existence and who were their earliest founders.
From The Coming of the Friars by Augustus Jessopp
