Sentence example with the word 'flint'

flint

adamant, brand, butane lighter, cigarette lighter, diamond, flambeau, granite, igniter, light, marble, oak, rock, spill, stone, torch

Definition adj. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

Last update: July 2, 2015


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Flint stone was used for lighting fires before invention of matches.   [noun]

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The ancient peoples of the flint, bronze and iron cultures heroically cleared them of their thin forests long eons ago.   [noun]

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Hawkeye listened while he coolly adjusted his flint and reloaded his rifle; but the sounds, wanting the extraneous assistance of scene and sympathy, failed to awaken his slumbering emotions.   [noun]

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Well, let them," he added, examining his flint; "the leading man certainly comes on to his death, though it should be Montcalm himself.   [noun]

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For the bulge of the breast is steep, and ribbed with hoops coming up in denial, concrete with chalk, muricated with flint, and thornily crested with good stout furze.   [noun]

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No glaring chalk, no grim sandstone, no rugged flint, outface it; but deep rich meadows, and foliage thick, and cool arcades of ancient trees, defy the noise that men make.   [noun]

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A word against his pet child was steel upon flint to Admiral Darling.   [noun]

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--Hast thou not," he continued, "made thy face as hard as flint against the truth in all the assemblies of the host.   [noun]

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As true as flint was Jacob Armitage, as I'm a born man.'   [noun]

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The light again appeared, and this time Edward heard the clash of the flint against the steel, and he was quite certain that it was somebody striking a light.   [noun]

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'Na, he would not ware the spark of a flint for him--if they came with the law.'   [noun]

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