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• They include red flints and semiflints, red dents, purple, mixed yellow and white, and variegated colors.2005, James C McCann, Maize and Grace, page 84. From the entry semiflint
• After twenty shots, flip the flint and dry fire the gun.1996 November, Lionel Atwill, “The Flash of Flint on Steel”, in Duncan Barnes, editor, Field & Stream, east edition, volume CI, number 7…. From the entry knap
• Pick made of deerhorn, used by flint miners in the New Stone Age.1930, Carl Whiting Bishop, Charles Greeley Abbot, Aleš Hrdlička, Man from the farthest past. From the entry deerhorn
• The calory- temperature curve for the flints and semiflints resembled one another very closely.1927, Bulletin - Volumes 36-48, page 266. From the entry semiflint
• Bean held court in an outhouse, the prisoner seated on a bale of flint hides.1906, Andy Adams, “Rangering”, in Cattle Brands: A Collection of Western Camp-Fire Stories. From the entry hold court
• Like being summoned by the Headmaster for a mis-flung flint.2015, M Ramesh, Silence of the Cicadas. From the entry misflung
• Very good knappable flint can be recovered from beaches but again test first to decide what is suitable.2013, Robert Turner, Flint Knapping: A Guide to Making Your Own Stone Age Toolkit. From the entry knappable
• For the Neolithics, the stone was flint, and it's still impressive to see what they were able to achieve with it.2011, Seán Lang, European History For Dummies, page 27. From the entry neolithic
• There was a piece of flint, a short length of iron, oakbark dust and a ball of tinderwool.2005, Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell, The Edge Chronicles: Vox, page 53. From the entry oakbark
• A two-storey building, originally faced in flint with an attic under a slated roof with hiplet towards the street.2000, “Thetford”, in John Earl, Michael Sell, editors, The Theatres Trust Guide to British Theatres, 1750-1950: a Gazetteer, London: A & C…. From the entry hiplet
• Flint chips and flakes were scattered about.1999, Bob Rampani, “Yesterday In Bridgeton, Site #6”, in Central States Archaeological Journal, volume 46, number 1, pages 9-10. From the entry bird point
• After every five or six shots, check the flint and tighten the jaws, if the flint has shifted.1996 November, Lionel Atwill, “The Flash of Flint on Steel”, in Duncan Barnes, editor, Field & Stream, east edition, volume CI, number 7…. From the entry knap
• These include enamels, flints, tints, leatherettes, and many others.1991, “Paperboard”, in F. A. Paine, editor, The Packaging User’s Handbook, Glasgow: Blackie Academic & Professional, Chapman & Hall…. From the entry leatherette
• In what way should we incorporate this material in our flint x dent programme of the early maturity groups?1960, Proceedings of the […] Meeting, Montpellier: European Association for Research on Plant Breeding, Maize and Sorghum Section, →ISSN…. From the entry popmaize
• Deed, it wasn't Jane, for she just hates ye; she always says ye're an ould miser, an' ye'd skin a flint.Fitzpatrick, Kathleen (1937), The Weans at Rowallan, page 54. From the entry skin a flint
• Their flints were beautifully fashioned in a distinctive style.1925, Floyd Lavern Darrow, Through Science to God, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, pages 136-137. From the entry enlightened
• Beyond this, to produce belleek, ground flint glass is introduced.1901, William Clayton, “Testimony of Mr. William Clayton”, in United States. Industrial Commission, editor, Reports of the Industrial…. From the entry belleek
• Instead, they made finely crafted bone points to haft onto their spears, reserving the use of flint mostly for blades and scrapers.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 218. From the entry scraper
• While the Aurignacians were capable hunters of the largest mammals, they were not equipped with the specialist flint points characteristic of later European cultures.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 218. From the entry Aurignacian
• Samila smiled and he sensed that this dwarrowdam was tougher than flint and able to go whatever lengths necessary to save her people.2017, Anne Olga Vea, A Dragonslayer's Tale, page 472. From the entry dwarrowdam
• She had watched the turned ground passing and had snatched up three partial arrowheads and a flint scraper and one fine complete bird point.1997, Charles Frazier, “Ashes of Roses”, in Cold Mountain, New York: Atlantic. From the entry bird point
• Fire - divided into need-fire (kindled by friction - discussed under 'Waluburg's Night') and 'struck fire' (sparked by flint and steel - discussion under Thonar).1993, Our Troth, page 660. From the entry need-fire
• Originally in biblical times berit milah may simply have consisted of cutting the Corlah (foreskin) with a flint knife (Exodus 4:25 and Joshua 5:2).1987, Joseph Guttmann, The Jewish Life Cycle, page 4. From the entry berit milah
• The island was two rocks grey as twilight between which a tump of iron loam ribbed with flint bore a stand of fir and spruce.1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!. From the entry tump
• The shape is believed to have been derived from its being originally the mounting of an elf-shot or fairy dart, i.e. flint arrowhead.1969, Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke, Folklore. From the entry fairy dart
• Like the local houses constructed before them and after, they are made in part of bungaroosh (a local Sussex name for flint and lime wall), brick, lime-plaster and timber.2011, Gilly Burton, Caroline Wallis, Brighton & Hove East Cliff, →ISBN. From the entry bungaroosh
• Language, albeit an abstraction, is yet a more subtle and pervasive criterion of individuality than the culture-group formed by comparing flints and potsherds or the "races" of the skull-measurer.1926, V. Gordon Childe, chapter 1, in The Aryans, page 4. From the entry skull-measurer

Meaning of flint

1. noun A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
2. noun A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
3. noun A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.

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How do you use flint in a sentence?

Flint is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He used flint to make a fire.”

What is a short sentence with flint?

“Flint chips and flakes were scattered about.”

What does flint mean?

Flint means a hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.