How to Use flint in a Sentence

flint

noun
  • That’s the flint, but that’s not the kindling.
    — Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 28 June 2026
  • Stars burst behind her eyes, a flint of pain sharp in her nose.
    — Longreads, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Much evidence points to their use of sharp flint flakes as knives.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2024
  • Later digs revealed a few more bones, along with flint blades.
    — The New York Times, Orange County Register, 7 June 2017
  • Dug and his tribe aren’t exactly the sharpest flints in the cave.
    — Charles Solomon, latimes.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The iron pyrite was likely struck against flint to produce fire.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 22 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • In the game, as well as in real life, striking flint on steel can start a fire.
    — Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • The Port of Dover lurks in the shadow of the chalk and flint.
    — Georgina Voss, The Atlantic, 20 June 2018
  • Some include a compass, a knife, or a flint for starting fires.
    — Ben Romans, Field & Stream, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Manziel was all brash, rubbing his fingertips like flint to start fire.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland.com, 23 Aug. 2017
  • That’s the flint but that’s not the kindling, however.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
  • Haymitch's lover, the one that gave him the flint striker, is a girl named Lenore Dove.
    — Dhanika Pineda, NPR, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The Ika team came from behind to win, scoring a pot, machete and flint.
    — al, 9 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • That led to no food, loss of flint, smaller tribes, and only a few reward challenges.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • But this duo’s ardor burns clean and cool, like a Sobranie, and Kulig is the flint.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 11 May 2018
  • 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
  • His plans include making the chapel out of flint in a Saxon style with a round tower.
    — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Despite not having flint, the Cila tribe started a fire with pairs of glasses.
    — Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The Neanderthal tools found at the site include a hand ax and small flint tools known as scrapers.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 21 Dec. 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 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
  • Like much of the house, it’s made from an early form of concrete known as no fines, mixed from fragments of flint and fish bones rather than sand.
    — Martin Morrell, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • The object turned out to be a five-inch-long flint dagger dated to the Neolithic era.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Scintillating salt and grapefruit as well as lime and flint on the nose, as well as lemon drops, green grass and some shortbread.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Flute artists will hold a variety of workshops, such as flint knapping and songwriting.
    — Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 31 May 2026
  • The first challenge saw the tribes competing for flint, which Vatu won with a signifigant lead.
    — Jacob Wilt, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Bones, flints, shale beads and antler headdresses have been recovered at what would've been in the lake's edge of these former wetlands.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Mar. 2018

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