stoney
adjective
a variant of stony.
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- a variation of stony.
stoney
American
[stoh-nee]
/ ˈstoʊ ni /
adjective
stonier,
stoniest
Stoney
British
/ ˈstəʊnɪ /
noun
Etymology
Origin of Stoney
from Siouan
Example Sentences
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They have found one of the healthiest, most diverse reefs in the region, free from the ravages of the stoney coral disease plaguing the Caribbean.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
And the stoney bits of asphalt bedazzling my legs elevated them to the next level.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2021
Gerard Depardieu, the thespian Russian tax exile, may soon have to embark on the same stoney path of contrition and hard work now he's realised he has made a fool of himself.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2013
Al-Katroushi wore a stoney expression, mirroring the team's quiet determination.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2012
After turning paler and paler, and more and more stoney, the baronet, with a half-suppressed cry, rose and fled.
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster
He began looking into the history of the former landfill site at Stoney Hill, in Telford, where former chemical giant, Monsanto, is known to have legally dumped waste in the mid to late 1980s.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
"When I found out about the Monsanto chemical dumping at Stoney Hill, I next identified Sutton Walls in Herefordshire, then Cefn Mawr in north Wales," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
He replaced former England defender Casey Stoney in 2021, who quit over frustrations at a lack of investment from the club.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
When Skinner took the United job in 2021, he had big boots to fill with Stoney a popular figure among supporters.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
And so he swept down on Stoney Sept, closed off the town, and began a search.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
It seemed both more substantial and more subdued, stonier and less exuberant.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2021
But with Diana as a contrast, the Queen is suddenly less regal and a good deal stonier.
From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2020
Yet in my experience, these wines very much bore out what I would have expected to see: The Crozes-Hermitage was the most open, and the St.-Joseph more tightly wound and stonier.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2020
That being said, the dismal returns of RoboCop prove the soil in Q1 is stonier than we think. digging.
From Time ● Feb. 19, 2014
For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Sarah Paulson operates under the belief that blood once flowed through even the stoniest of hearts.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2020
Mini Grey's deliciously inventive story told through illustrations with familiar speech bubble comments will make even the stoniest and least imaginative hearts and minds believe in this beautifully imagined fantasy.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2012
Only the stoniest of hearts remains unmoved during the "reveal", as the needy, war veterans and people with disabled kids are gifted the house of their dreams.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2011
He played a careful game, kept one of the stoniest poker faces in the South Pacific, and "seemed always to end up a game somewhere between $30 and $60 ahead." a wartime friend recalls.
From Time Magazine Archive
Indifferent to the scorching rays of the sun, flourishing on the stoniest declivities, and sustaining the soil in a marvellous manner, it was planted wherever nothing else would grow—a distant but sure profit.
From Old Calabria by Norman Douglas
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