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"Flint" in a Sentence (18 examples)
Centuries ago, people started fires using flint and steel.
What's diamond is diamond, what's flint is flint.
The landscape was cold and sharp as flint.
Scouts can start a fire using only flint and steel.
First from a flint a spark Achates drew, / and lit the leaves and dry wood heaped with care / and set the fuel flaming, as he blew.
She was a fine tall woman, black and quick and fierce, with a proud way of carrying her head, and a glint from her eye like a spark from a flint.
Fire glows, burns and consumes to ashes. A spark of it struck from a flint (or firestone) by means of a steel, and taken by tinder in a tinder box, lights a match, and after that a candle, or a stick, and causes a flame, or blaze, which catches hold of houses.
Sand and gravel are stone broken into bits. A whetstone, flint, marble etcetera are ordinary stones.
I set my face like a flint because I know I shall not be put to shame.
With patience, you can even bore through flint.
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He used flint to make a fire.
Some of the enormous fragments of chalk which are interstratified with drift have not only layers of undisturbed flints, but also sandpipes in the middle of them, or cylindrical cavities filled with sand and gravel […]
In a cornfield on one side flakings of flint are numerous.
No schoolboys lingered round Bob Robertson's (yclept Roberson's) blacksmith's shop, for this sleepy day no lusty throat bellowed attention to the flaming tongues fanned from its bloodily blazing teeth; no luminous stars flinted from the clanking anvil.
No change from the primordial doth appear, / Within the earth’s rotation of the year, / Nor are ye heirless of her sane decree, / The problem is potentiality / Of Spring and Autumn, burdenful with Fate, / Upon the seeds of labour ye must wait, / Sowing the Consequence by which ye came, / Flinting the fire not to fire but flame, / With all the end of Destiny the same!
The sun had warmed the air to a balmy 45 degrees and sent sparks flinting off the bleachy white snow.
Each one claimed they were unjustly criticized, while claiming to have had Flint residents in mind.
Remember that so many of us click on links to CashApps, Venmos, PayPals, etc. to donate to bail funds, Flint Water reliefs, the next Ferguson, and the like without any thought of integrating ourselves into collective action?
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