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US
/ˈstoʊnɪŋ/
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[ UK /stˈəʊnɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /stˈəʊnɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- the act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death)
How To Use stoning In A Sentence
- Every major tombstoning accident has been due to there not being enough water. Times, Sunday Times
- It is time to leave stoning as a form of capi tal punishment behind us as a race, to relegate it to the same place we have put stringing heretics on racks -- in a chapter of our past that we are not proud of. José Ramos-Horta: An Appeal for Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani
- They urged parents to warn youngsters about the dangers of tombstoning. The Sun
- At each harvest the fresh weight and dry matter content of fruit flesh and stones were measured after peeling and stoning.
- March 5th, 2010 at 1: 05 pm bitblt says: buttblight keeps whining about being stoned for purity sins, but heyzeus was very clear in john 8 that behaving with the “judgment” against others and stoning was in itself was just as evil. Think Progress » Missouri lawmaker: Allowing gays to serve openly increases a military’s casualty rate.
- To those whom I have told this story since, some have disputed whether this was correct application of the sharia, primarily upon two grounds: (1) that she was not a Believer, and therefore sharia cannot apply, or (2) that the punishment for fornication is merely a hundred lashes, not the death by stoning required for adultery. The Parable of the Spider
- The Center for Security Policy wants Americans to think that stoning and amputations are around the corner, but the report can't quite explain why stonings are so rare and the streets of Saudi Arabia and Iran are not filled with one-armed thieves. Sabria Jawhar: The Idiocy of the Anti-Sharia Crowd
- At each harvest the fresh weight and dry matter content of fruit flesh and stones were measured after peeling and stoning.
- Spokesman Mark Toner said, "We're deeply troubled by press reports of the planned execution by Iranian authorities of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani by stoning.
- A bit like tombstoning, only instead of jumping off cliffs into water, they jump into diets that are going to lose them nothing but their health and sanity.
