Stony Point

American  

noun

1. a village in SE New York, on the Hudson: site of a strategic fort in the Revolutionary War.

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Example Sentences

Mr. Rivera owned a $780,000 home with a heated swimming pool and waterfall in Stony Point, N.Y., and another house in the Poconos.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2022

In 1954, after foraging in the woods around the Stony Point artists’ colony in upstate New York, Cage began to feel unwell after eating poisonous hellebore, which he had mistaken for the similar skunk cabbage.

From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2020

But it opened at Brancato’s Penguin Rep Theatre in Stony Point, N.Y., in 2000 and has been traveling to regional theaters ever since.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2017

Richards, who taught literature and drama, abandoned her husband for another faculty member, the composer David Tudor; together with Cage and others, they soon established the fabled commune the Land in Stony Point, New York.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2015

Minnekahta is a station in the midst of a vast plain, Pringles a sawmill, Stony Point just nothing at all.

From The Westerners by White, Stewart Edward