How to Use flinty in a Sentence

flinty

adjective
  • The few words Reid did say were often flinty and fiery.
    — Lisa Mascaro, ajc, 12 Jan. 2022
  • But the cold, dark months also brought a few shows that warmed our flinty hearts.
    — oregonlive, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The trade-off is a ride that can be flinty when driving over rough stretches of road.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 9 Oct. 2017
  • For example, the ride is flinty and can be a little too stiff for day-to-day use.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Absence makes even the flinty New England heart grow fonder.
    — Robin Abrahams, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Jan. 2021
  • One eyelid droops a little over a flinty blue eye, two fingers on his left hand were lost to a buzz saw a decade ago.
    — Ana Swanson, Washington Post, 6 June 2017
  • These were more efficient than thin flinty rocks, which can't sustain a sharp edge.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Jan. 2020
  • About as tall as and slightly wider than Reath himself, dark gray, with rounded edges and a flinty, flaky surface.
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 4 May 2021
  • In Ojibwa, the river is called biwanag sibi or flinty river.
    — Richard Horan, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2018
  • Gaffney, in a welcome return to the San Diego stage, owns the role of this flinty but sympathetic character.
    — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 May 2018
  • What’s left doesn’t give Chastain a whole lot to play aside from good manners, sharp comebacks and the kind of flinty resilience that has become the actress’ stock-in-trade.
    — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 28 June 2018
  • So, take a chance on a bold Portuguese red or a flinty Hungarian white and celebrate Wine Day in style.
    — Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • Keep a couple of hankies handy, because the play will likely soften the flintiest hearts in the audience.
    — F. Kathleen Foley, latimes.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • But mostly the book is the equivalent of a flinty, modern dame holding her own in a room full of condescending men.
    — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 27 May 2022
  • The extended period of severe cold has begun to get on the nerves of even the flintiest of New Englanders.
    — CBS News, 8 Jan. 2018
  • The extended period of severe cold has begun to get on the nerves of even the flintiest of New Englanders.
    — Bloomberg.com, 7 Jan. 2018
  • The extended period of severe cold has begun to get on the nerves of even the flintiest of New Englanders.
    — CBS News, 8 Jan. 2018
  • But Cordae is also flinty about being pegged as the new embodiment of Woke Rap.
    — August Brown, latimes.com, 10 July 2019
  • What could possibly have happened to this flinty statue of a man to have so thoroughly broken him?
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2025
  • He's gone for long stretches, and impoverished Rosie comes to rely on herself and the land, as well as the flinty kindness of her odd neighbor Billy.
    — Marci Schmitt, Star Tribune, 4 July 2021
  • Their flinty dynamic powers and shapes the ensuing episodes.
    — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 31 Dec. 2021
  • The death of Andy Warhol prompted these flinty mavericks to create a series of songs about their early champion.
    — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Lingua Franca's Pinot Noir has a flinty finish with plum and red-cherry tones, reminders that the property was once a fruit orchard.
    — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 6 May 2018
  • And Crawford, his flinty good looks partly hidden by a dark beard and coarsened by the cold Utah air, all but buries David in an inchoate weave of jealousy, confusion and fury.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021
  • Their devotion to the cause, and their flinty brand of Central European bohemianism, could come off as cultish, in a benign way.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • This history tends to make islanders tough and rooted in their own reality, à la the flinty fishmongers and conch divers of Our Blues.
    — Gary Shteyngart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Mosel Valley Riesling’s leanness and flinty character is said to come from the red and blue limestone in which it is cultivated.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Doherty, who broke out as the flinty Princess Anne in The Crown, is marvelous in a role that’s simultaneously magnetic and off-putting.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 June 2022
  • One of the liveliest genre examples is director Raine Allen-Miller’s sassy London-set, day-long rom-com that doesn’t waste one nano-second of its flinty 82-minute running time.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Perched on the balcony of his floating home — a wood cabin with portholes, tethered to a dock on the Alameda waterfront — Bob Houlihan wore the flinty expression of a man ready for battle.
    — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Dec. 2022

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