2 example sentences using stony.

Stony used in a sentence

Stony in a sentence as an adjective

I don't have a problem with any of those cases; it's stony silence that gets me.

I tried emailing her a few times and left her a voicemail, noting very politely that they had contacted me and not vice versa, and asking if they were still interested in setting up an interview, but all I got was stony silence.

Stony definitions

adjective

abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches"

See also: rocky bouldery bouldered

adjective

showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"

See also: flinty flint granitic obdurate

adjective

hard as granite; "a granitic fist"

See also: granitic granitelike rocklike