STONE in a Sentence

Learn STONE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

308 example sentences for STONE, such as:

1. She carves in both stone and wood.
2. You can't get blood out of a stone.
3. The boy cast a stone into the water.
4. Eight massive stone pillars supported the roof.
5. Convicts were made to break stone for the roads.

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 Meanings and Examples of STONE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stone
 n.  hard and solid substance found in the ground that can be used in building
 n.  a piece of hard material in someone's organs and causing severe pain
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It was familiar ground to me, and I needed no guiding as we ascended the bleak stone staircase and made our way down the long corridor with its vista of whitewashed wall and dun-coloured doors.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  He was white to the very lips, and had sunk down on the stone against which he had been leaning.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
3  Mollie, it was true, was not good at getting up in the mornings, and had a way of leaving work early on the ground that there was a stone in her hoof.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
4  Without halting for an instant, Snowball flung his fifteen stone against Jones's legs.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
5  But the problem the animals could not at first solve was how to break up the stone into pieces of suitable size.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
6  Transporting the stone when it was once broken was comparatively simple.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
7  By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
8  Unable at first to speak, they stood gazing mournfully at the litter of fallen stone.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
9  Still, it had been decided to build the walls three feet thick this time instead of eighteen inches as before, which meant collecting much larger quantities of stone.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
10  Having got there, he collected two successive loads of stone and dragged them down to the windmill before retiring for the night.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
11  He did not care what happened so long as a good store of stone was accumulated before he went on pension.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
12  He had gone out alone to drag a load of stone down to the windmill.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
13  There is a pretty good store of stone accumulated.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
14  Napoleon was now a mature boar of twenty-four stone.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
15  His nose on his paws, his haunches drawn up, he looked a stone dog, a crusader's dog, guarding even in the realms of death the sleep of his master.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
Example Sentence: (98 in 7 pages)
16  You can't get blood out of a stone.
17  She carves in both stone and wood.
18  The boy cast a stone into the water.
19  The little boy picked up a stone and bunged it over the fence into the courtyard of his neighbour.
20  Convicts were made to break stone for the roads.
21  A blunt knife may be sharpened on a stone, but if a man is stupid there is no help for his stupidity.
22  The drop hollows the stone, not by force, but by the frequency of its fall.
23  Drop by drop the oceans are filled; stone by stone the walls are built.
24  If you remove stone by stone, even a mountain will be levelled.
25  The roof of the church was supported by stone pillars.
26  The city centre streets are paved with dark local stone.
27  Eight massive stone pillars supported the roof.
28  The roof is supported by eight massive stone pillars.
29  You won't move that stone, however strong you are.
30  Many students now see university as a stepping stone to a good job.