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. Kill two birds with one stone.
2. The stone is hard to the touch.
3. One cannot get blood from a stone.
4. Constant dropping wears away a stone.
5. Beauty is like a rich stone, best plain set.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of STONE
stone
 n.  United States architect (1902-1978)
 n.  United States filmmaker (born in 1946)
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)
1  The streetcar was derailed by a stone lying across the rails of a track.
2  The stone she threw caused ripples to spread across the lake.
3  They just cleave the stone along the cracks.
4  Constant dropping wears away a stone.
5  If you would build for your happiness a sure foundation, let the stone for the corner be a good reputation.
6  The stone is hard to the touch.
7  Kill two birds with one stone.
8  The drop of rain makes a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by of falling.
9  Little drops of water finally can wear stone, not because it is strong, but due to circadian won't drop pendant.
10  A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.
11  Knowledge is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
12  Wind and rain have eroded the statues into shapeless lumps of stone.
13  A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled.
14  Beauty is like a rich stone, best plain set.
15  One cannot get blood from a stone.