How to Use hard stone in a Sentence

hard stone

noun

• Lee and Winslet present us with the image of a hard stone to crack.
  — Armond White, National Review, 13 Nov. 2020
• The artists would have rubbed down the surface of the stone slab with a harder stone, like quartzite, until the surface was smooth.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2017
• Unlike a hard stone, Wilson’s voice is warm, like a low soothing hum with a touch of soul.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 June 2018
• Over time, those crystals can become small, hard stones.
  — Samantha Lauriello, Health.com, 9 Sep. 2019
• The medium of choice: washed hard stone like granite or quartz, not limestone or sandstone.
  — New York Times, 2 Mar. 2022
• With the pews full, an older woman dressed in a silk skirt knelt slowly on the hard stone floor beneath the vaulted ceiling to pray.
  — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2022
• Botanically speaking, stone fruits are a type of drupe: thin-skin fruits with soft flesh around a hard stone or pit encasing their seeds.
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2020
• Someone a little like us invested extra time and effort to enact these shapes on hard stone.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• Martorana’s gambit is to carve soft things, with exquisite realism, from hard stone.
  — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2021
• The animating premise appears to be that Hamlet and Ophelia (Gayle Rankin) are naïve youngsters who are broken on the hard stone of reality.
  — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 13 July 2017
• Kidney stones develop when salt and other minerals found in urine stick together and form into hard stone-like deposits.
  — Samantha Lauriello, Health.com, 31 July 2019
• It Up Alternating materials, like gold with hard stones or mother of pearl, add visual interest.
  — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 24 July 2019

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