flinty

Example Sentences

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People try to be nice about it, but let’s face it, it’s cold, flinty and cheap looking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

But there is still a combination of flinty determination and composure under pressure that has restricted England to just eight victories in 46 meetings across more than a century.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2025

"It's a big old cheese -- there's a lot going on. The texture is beautiful: it's flinty as you break it apart; the crystalline in there are so delicate," he said.

From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025

Sweat, who is 70, has a golfer’s tan, flinty eyes, and a shirt unbuttoned just a little too far.

From Slate • Nov. 6, 2025

This riddling figure with flinty eyes isn’t the Locke who stood on the rooftop of his estate and spoke so gently to me or who chased me, laughing, through its halls.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black