stone wall

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Recent Examples of stone wall Witnesses told officials that people yelled at the woman driving to hit the brakes, but the cart eventually hit a stone wall and flipped, sending all four occupants into the water. Doha Madani, NBC news, 28 Aug. 2025 The journey unfolds through fairways framed by stone walls, with an ancient tower standing sentinel behind the 3rd green, before building toward the 8th—another cape hole bending back along the coast in the opposite direction of the 2nd. Jeff Goudy, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025 How to Incorporate a Garden Fountain Interior designer Peter Dunham arranged low-slung furniture around a basin-style fountain installed by landscape designer Scott Lewis at a Napa, CA, home, where a neat gravel square, a stone wall, and a tree canopy help define the space as an outdoor room. Laura Fenton, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Aug. 2025 Rising behind a stately stone wall on one of Greater Boston’s most celebrated streets, 56 Central Street is a masterclass in timeless elegance. Miriam Schwartz, Boston Herald, 14 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stone wall
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Noun
  • On the white brick wall behind the bar hung what looked like a triptych of a swan on a pink settee.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 15 Sep. 2025
  • That’s the brick wall that Kelley is up against.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The virus’s spread is often accelerated by living conditions and other socioeconomic factors on Native lands, such as overcrowded housing, limited access to health care and clean water, environmental hazards and barriers to transportation.
    Suzette Brewer, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Both deaths occurred in Guangfu Township, Hualien County, which was inundated with heavy rain and flooding after a barrier lake burst its banks.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The road was the site of an international crisis when Baku accused Armenia of smuggling landmines and other weapons into the enclave through the road, implementing a months-long blockade in response.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 21 Sep. 2025
  • In April 2013 Cáceres organized a road blockade in the Río Blanco region to stop the power company that owned and operated the Agua Zarca project, Desarrollos Energéticos Sociedad Anónima (DESA), from accessing the dam site.
    Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Study 2 In this study, an extension of the first, the research team studied how T cells behave during chronic infections and during checkpoint blockage therapy.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2025
  • An autopsy report later revealed that the singer-songwriter died of sequelae of small bowel obstruction, an intestinal blockage.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025

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“Stone wall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stone%20wall. Accessed 25 Sep. 2025.

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