stone-throwing
Noun
Meaning
stone-throwing (uncountable)
The action of throwing one or more stones, often as a form of aggression or assault, or with the intention of causing damage.
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Examples
According to Savani "some anti-social elements from the neighbourhood gate-crashed into the school soon after and resorted to stone-throwing and damaged a scooter, a motorbike, set a Kinetic Honda on fire and broke flower pots in the premises."
Further, eyewitnesses said, mob action gradually escalated from the chanting of anti-Yekeh slogans to frenzied stone-throwing action by the mob.
A wedding reception for a couple in Loubiere was turned into a nightmare on Saturday evening when the event was attacked by a group of cutlass-wielding and stone-throwing young people at the Loubiere Resource Center.
Instead, they encountered the descendants of 1948, the stone-throwing refugees of Deheisha and Balata.
In the same month, posters in parts of Uttar Pradesh had come up asking Kashmiri students to leave the state or 'face the consequences', in what appeared to be a reaction to the stone-throwing by Kashmiri youths at security forces in the Valley.
Social unrest here alludes to the frequent stone-throwing, Friday prayer demonstrations, and flash mob interference in ongoing anti-terror operations.