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
Al-Katroushi wore a stoney expression, mirroring the team's quiet determination.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2012
By budget standards, certainly by Darling budget standards, it triggered unusually loud laughter on the Labour and Lib Dem benches, stoney faces behind David Cameron.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2010
Kingston wanted a populous back country then, and still wants it because the soil is stoney and not therefore so well adapted for agricultural operations as the soils of other parts of the province.
From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Charles Roger
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 I worked with all the dudes, Stoney and all those guys, and Diane Lane, who was, I don’t know, 19 years old or something.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
Abbott, who represents the Stoney Stanton and Croft division, said he was "not being prejudiced" or "tarring anyone" and was stating a concern "from his residents".
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026
Like me, I would have loved a Casey Stoney shirt and I'm glad that's now possible.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
Last night he’d dreamt of Stoney Sept again.
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
Mum was looking stonier and stonier as the rockery in the garden and the rockery in her blueprint got more and more different.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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
Three varieties of sumac, reaching often as high as fifteen or eighteen feet, and spreading as many wide, stand thick upon a thousand hill-sides and fill with green the driest and stoniest ravines.
From The California Birthday Book by Various
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