How to Use flinty in a Sentence

flinty

adjective
  • 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
  • These were more efficient than thin flinty rocks, which can't sustain a sharp edge.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The finish is long and smooth, with lingering red fruits and a flinty minerality.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Roberts plays a flinty college professor who is caught up in the crossfire between the accusor and the accused.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Mare brought the intimate, personal lives of flinty women into focus with just the right mix of humor, trauma, and hope.
    — Grace Byron, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Inglesby writes sensitive but flinty women with a gentle yet edgy, masterful touch.
    — Grace Byron, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The finish is medium-long, with lingering citrus notes and a hint of flinty minerality.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
  • But Tommila’s turn retains a degree of flinty humor, even some warmth — despite never getting so much as a word to speak.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Bridgehampton was open fields and flinty farmers, living in wooden homes weathered by the tempestuous sea.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 30 Mar. 2020
  • But Cordae is also flinty about being pegged as the new embodiment of Woke Rap.
    — August Brown, latimes.com, 10 July 2019
  • The two flinty characters are more likely to expose their own vulnerable bellies to outsiders than to each other.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2022
  • 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 these roles demonstrate is that Lopez excels at playing flinty women trying to survive who use their wit and cunning to outsmart the men around them.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 8 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Over a three-hour coffee of life experiences, and a subsequent casting test, Chou saw his fierce, flinty character.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Handling is nimble, as expected from a compact sports sedan, but we were disappointed with the lack of steering feel and the flinty ride quality.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Although some Volvos can exhibit a sharp, flinty ride, our test car's air springs helped lend it a comfortable comportment that never felt uncouth.
    — Annie White, Car and Driver, 16 July 2021
  • 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
  • Here, with a flinty gaze and revolutionary fervor, Taylor casts maternal instinct to the winds.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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