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Meanings of granitelike in English

Hard as granite.

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        Examples for "stony"
        1
        Home is New York, stony and tall: its real estate is real.
        The new yorker
        2
        The soil in the valley was rich, but stony in some parts.
        Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume...
        3
        It drops here and there, in good ground and in stony places.
        Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago / Personal recollections ...
        4
        Perhaps His Grey Grace will choose you to ornament his stony court.
        A Dance with Dragons
        5
        The stony-faced security team lead Ben back up to Clarke's twentieth-floor office.
        Breathe
        1
        The drift-clays are the result of the grinding up of granitic rocks.
        Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel
        2
        This was poor, granitic country, no good for anything but growing trees.
        Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
        3
        The eruptions consequently took place at the lowest point of the granitic chain.
        Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
        4
        The little Indian village stands at the foot of a lofty granitic mountain.
        Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
        5
        Yet many a time I have seen those lips harden into granitic stubbornness.
        Odd John
        1
        He said all this quietly, but the revolver remained poised with rocklike firmness.
        The Rangeland Avenger
        2
        On either side of me, huge, scarped walls of rocklike substance rose sheer.
        The House on the Borderland
        3
        Arthur seemed intent on showing Miss Dixon his most rocklike and intimidating countenance.
        Romancing miss bronte: a novel
        4
        Call finished the rocklike eggs and gave Dish the onceover.
        Lonesome dove
        5
        His eyes were deep holes carved in a rocklike face.
        Swan Song
        Usage of granitelike in English
        1
        However, he was quickly overwhelmed by Gangrel's large, granitelike cranium.
        On Edge
        2
        Only, in Fred, these lips were not sensual but granitelike.
        The Godfather
        3
        The sport suited her unwavering, granitelike determination.
        The athena project: a thriller
        4
        "War is not a pretty occupation," said Antony, and the soldier now showed, granitelike, through the politician.
        The Memoirs of Cleopatra
        Granitelike through the time