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stone - use in sentences
Converse of object
- weigh: Enter your answer Thomas Ball Question 24: What weighed 464 stones in 1823?
- carve: Figure 7: Carved stone with Pictish Latin inscription.
- lay: In May 1920 King George V laid the foundation stone of the Old Building.
- step: It was the perfect stepping stone for what was to come next.
Adjective modifier
- semi-precious: Veins of semi-precious stones and metals were created including copper, lead, silver and iron.
- stepping: Robson says it's an ideal stepping stone, a big club with small pressures.
Noun used with modifier
- paving: The paving stones are designed to show where the Market Hall would have originally stood.
Modifies a noun
- wall: There is an obvious stone wall running through the area.
- fireplace: Living Rooms: Large area with a stone fireplace.
- barn: By night they are housed in a large stone barn with plenty of space, all their feed is additive free.
- cottage: A delightful rural hamlet of natural stone cottages, set deep in the wooded Camel valley.
- slab: The drying chamber, with an inner ring of upright stone slabs, had been cut into the earlier enclosure bank.
Noun used with modifier
- kidney: A kidney stone is a possible cause of this.
- standing: A sign points the way to Macleod's standing stone on the far side of the sand about 700 meters from the road.
- foundation: The foundation stone of a new church was laid by Miss Hill of Appleby on 11 July, 1866.
- rubble: Causeway wall of granite rubble stone with roadway between.
- memorial: Firstly, the memorial stone next to the entrance of the bunker.
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