Stony Brook

noun

1. a town in N Long Island, in SE New York.

Example Sentences

Yang retired from Stony Brook in 1999 and moved back to China a few years later to teach freshman physics at Tsinghua.

From MIT Technology Review

Shortly after the NCAA’s decision, the transfer from Stony Brook was able to suit up Wednesday evening for the Hurricanes, who were reduced by injuries to just six healthy scholarship players by the end of Saturday’s upset loss to Florida Gulf Coast.

From Washington Post

Sara Sonnack, a Stony Brook journalism major who will be a senior next year, says she hopes she can make the trip.

From The Daily Beast

Footnote 173: The creek referred to is Stony brook, northward from Roxbury fort.

From Project Gutenberg

The road dropped into a rough glen, crossed a stony brook, and then wound along the side of a thickly wooded hill.

From Project Gutenberg

Varied hyphenation was retained including Stony-Brook and Stonybrook.

From Project Gutenberg

Then, what a wild and roaring little brook that Stony Brook was!

From Project Gutenberg

What would David have done had there not been a stony brook between him and Goliath that day?

From Project Gutenberg