stone meaning:
n.) a single piece of rock, concreted earthy or mineral matter;
n.) a precious mineral; gem.
n.) a hard seed or pit.
n.) A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
stone sentence:
A stone does not float.
I cannot lift this stone.
He threw a stone at a dog.
I weigh ten and a half stone.
His name was incised on the stone.
Stone was used to build their houses.
He broke the window by throwing a stone.
She used a hammer to chip away the stone.
She picked up beautiful stones.
The sharp stones lacerated his feet.
The machine pounds the stones into powder.
The path is paved with interlocking stones.
There are many oval stones at the bottom of the stream.
The boy passed the time by flinging stones into the lake.
A handful of protesters began throwing stones at the police.
The earthquake dislodged stones from the walls and the roof.
The news about calcium and kidney stones is a case in point.
Primitive man made himself primitive tools from stones and bones.
Groups of drunken hooligans smashed shop windows and threw stones.
In the past, armies used catapults to hurl heavy stones at enemy fortifications.
Rioters blocked roads and stoned vehicles.
A post office was set on fire and vehicles were stoned by looters.
He suffered martyrdom by stoning.
The beetle scuttled away when I lifted the stone.
Three months later I am fitter and have lost two stone.
I could just pick out some letters carved into the stone.
I had no hammer,so I had to pound the nail in with a stone.
The root of the big tree trends to edge away the corner stone.
Knives can be sharpened by grinding them against a rough stone.
Getting an apology from him was like getting blood from a stone.
A house built of wood is more easily burnt than a house of stone.
The investigator left no stone unturned in his search for evidence.
Wind and rain have eroded the statues into shapeless lumps of stone.
The thing blocking my path was a stone wall of less than meter’s height.
What is written on the stone could not have been put there without reason.
Historians used the Rosetta stone to crack the code of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
She leaned her bike against the stone wall and stood on tiptoe to peer over it.
She seized the doll and dashed it against the stone wall with tremendous force.
A good lawyer would leave no stone unturned in his efforts to defend his client.
There was something written on the stone, and they tried to make out what it was.
The Princess of Wales laid the foundation stone for the extension to the Cathedral.
I killed two birds with one stone and picked the kids up on the way to the station.
Without the foundation stone, the relationship may become unsteady and even get worse.
I tripped on a stone, twisting my ankle.
The magic sword was embedded in the stone.
Strange letters had been cut into the stone.
The wood had been painted to simulate stone.
The blocks of stone were jointed with cement.
A smooth stone is used to burnish the surface.
He left no stone unturned to carry out the plan.