How to Use flint in a Sentence

flint

noun
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  • The Port of Dover lurks in the shadow of the chalk and flint.
    — Georgina Voss, The Atlantic, 20 June 2018
  • The team found that the small size and weight of the flint points meant the points worked best when fired with a bow.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Dug and his tribe aren’t exactly the sharpest flints in the cave.
    — Charles Solomon, latimes.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Our heroine has the tools: a hatchet, a knife and a flint.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Lighter, matches, and a flint or some type of fire starter.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Stars burst behind her eyes, a flint of pain sharp in her nose.
    — Longreads, 3 Aug. 2017
  • The number of hours spent trying to make fire with no flint.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 28 July 2021
  • The blade was made of a hard, dark rock called chert that is similar to flint.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 21 June 2018
  • But this duo’s ardor burns clean and cool, like a Sobranie, and Kulig is the flint.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 11 May 2018
  • The tool from France was a sharp-edged flint used for cutting, and the string could have tied it to a handle, Hardy said.
    — Tom Metcalfe, NBC News, 9 Apr. 2020
  • This comes from vineyards in Touraine, on soils of clay, limestone and flint (the prized silex of the Loire Valley).
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The area is close to chalk bedrock, so flint would have been available to Stone Age tool makers.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Deep within were the two war-era chambers that been dug from the chalk and flint, the jewels’ wartime home.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2018
  • The Ika team came from behind to win, scoring a pot, machete and flint.
    — al, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Flint threw the man's phone out of the window, grabbed the keys, then took off in the 2007 Ford Focus, a police report says.
    — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland.com, 7 June 2017
  • That's because Vesi had no flint, and therefore no fire.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Later digs revealed a few more bones, along with flint blades.
    — The New York Times, Orange County Register, 7 June 2017
  • The first tribe to complete the challenge receives a pot, a machete and a flint to take home and set up a shelter with.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Some include a compass, a knife, or a flint for starting fires.
    — Ben Romans, Field & Stream, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The new Crofton 40-ounce Thirst Crusher Tumbler will come in charcoal, blue, flint gray, and cream.
    — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The Neanderthal tools found at the site include a hand ax and small flint tools known as scrapers.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 21 Dec. 2021
  • His plans include making the chapel out of flint in a Saxon style with a round tower.
    — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Well, Yam Yam and Carolyn are quite the duo on the Tika tribe, which lost the challenge, their flint and that sweet fishing gear.
    — Erica Thompson, The Enquirer, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Found at the east end of the tunnel, the 11 rock carvings and stucco reliefs depict the head of a bird of prey, a flint, a war shield and raindrops.
    — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2021
  • That led to no food, loss of flint, smaller tribes, and only a few reward challenges.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Manziel was all brash, rubbing his fingertips like flint to start fire.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 23 Aug. 2017
  • Flint faces the same abandonment, crime, blight, troubled schools,...
    — Dylan Hernandez, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2017
  • The canoe was heaped with valuable trade goods: copper, flint, weapons, textiles, and beer.
    — Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 1 Jan. 2017
  • The team is installed in a traditional flint-stone barn.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Scintillating salt and grapefruit as well as lime and flint on the nose, as well as lemon drops, green grass and some shortbread.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021

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