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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.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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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." Source: Internet

Further, eyewitnesses said, mob action gradually escalated from the chanting of anti-Yekeh slogans to frenzied stone-throwing action by the mob. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

Instead, they encountered the descendants of 1948, the stone-throwing refugees of Deheisha and Balata. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

Social unrest here alludes to the frequent stone-throwing, Friday prayer demonstrations, and flash mob interference in ongoing anti-terror operations. Source: Internet

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