How to Use flintlock in a Sentence

flintlock

noun
  • Asameni holds a Danish flintlock gun in his right hand and a bunch of keys in his left hand.
    — Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann, Quartz Africa, 13 July 2019
  • Smoke billowed from his flintlock and Rhoades didn’t see where the buck ran after the shot.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 28 Jan. 2026
  • In the left talon is a cocked flintlock pistol, which symbolizes land warfare and a state of constant readiness.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Nov. 2019
  • In the left talon is a cocked flintlock pistol, which symbolizes land warfare and a state of constant readiness.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Highly flammable, amadou has also served as tinder for flintlock guns and prehistoric campfires.
    — Kenneth Miller, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2013
  • The flintlock coughed a lot of smoke, but Zutterman heard the 270-grain roundball smack the buck.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The flintlock’s round ball projectile passed completely through its lungs, and the buck ran only 30 yards before falling dead.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Elsewhere, there are flintlock rifles and camel saddlebags; kilims and suzanis; chain mail shirts and Tartar helmets.
    — Rod Nordland, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018
  • The Oba’s soldiers had flintlock rifles, bows and arrows, and clubs; the British had 38 Maxim machine guns.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 4 June 2021
  • Firing demonstrations of reproduction flintlock muskets take place on weekends.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2021
  • Using parts from any number of online vendors, a gun hobbyist could build his own Colonial-era flintlock rifle or a Wild West replica six-shooter.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Guns have always been part of our story, since the beginning, when flintlock muskets were the instruments of our American Revolution.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 21 May 2018
  • Remington, the country’s oldest gun maker, began making flintlock rifles in 1816.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2021
  • Remington, the country's oldest gun maker, began making flintlock rifles in 1816.
    — CBS News, 8 Nov. 2021
  • In the late 18th century, there was no one more associated with flintlock dueling pistols than Robert Wogdon.
    — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 2 July 2020
  • In the late 18th century, there was no one more associated with flintlock dueling pistols than Robert Wogdon.
    — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 2 July 2020
  • Another flintlock hunter, Larry Oswald, shot an 8-point earlier this season that scored 150 2/8.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 28 Jan. 2026
  • To date, the legal debate over the Second Amendment has largely assumed that gun technology unfolds over time according to a single, linear logic, from the colonial flintlock musket to the modern AR-15.
    — Jennifer Tucker, CNN, 20 Oct. 2021

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