stony
IPA: stˈoʊni
noun
- (fandom slang) The ship of characters Steve Rogers (Captain America) and Tony Stark (Iron Man) from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
adjective
- As hard as stone.
- Containing or made up of stones.
- (figuratively) Of a person, lacking warmth and emotion.
- (figuratively) Of an action or expression such as a look, showing no warmth of emotion.
- (UK and Australia, slang) Short for stony broke: without any money.
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Examples of "stony" in Sentences
- Why is it so stony and bumpy
- The road is stony and inconvenient.
- The bed of the river is rough and stony.
- He does not care about the stony ground.
- The creek is known for its stony condition.
- The shores around the lake were stony ground.
- The lake shore was stony and the soil unproductive.
- If you believe in stony men they'll skewer your smile.
- "This next one is what we call a stony-iron meteorite."
- He almost fell on the ground due to its stony condition.
- By the time the Parthe reaches Leipzig, the stony riverbed is visible.
- He was the first European to cross the stony elevated plain of the Hammada.
- President Obama sat in stony silence, stared at Gibson and refused to answer.
- In the half-light his face was as still as a wax mannequins, his eyes unblinking, his expression stony.
- The crowd of Republican delegates, who had been quite generous with their applause up until that point, sat there in stony silence.
- That means a venue where the audience doesn't get the jokes and sits there in stony silence as the comedian at the mike goes through his routine.
- I guess the idiots who use the Better Joy Cookbook just cook and eat in stony silence, never saying a word or even looking each other in the eye.
- Either you buy their Vaseline-lensed visions of the hereafter, or you watch in stony silence, as I did, wondering why there's no one to care about.
- Those "sitting on their hands in stony silence" were the minority who, while they may not have agreed with the party in power, were grownups with the decorum and decency to respect the office of the president.