How to Use flint in a Sentence

flint

noun

• 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
• Most of the clues come as pottery, flint tools and bones.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Grapefruit and flint aromas, as well as lime and lemon.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• The Ika team came from behind to win, scoring a pot, machete and flint.
  — al, 9 Mar. 2022
• Much evidence points to their use of sharp flint flakes as knives.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2024
• 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
• The object turned out to be a five-inch-long flint dagger dated to the Neolithic era.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 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
• In addition to the stone lids, the dig team found such goods as beads, ceramics, flint, an ax and a hammer.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
• The team also identified a flint blade that may have been used as a cauterizing tool.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 June 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024