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Meanings of flinty in English
Synonyms
Examples for "flint"
Examples for "flint"
1
I have food, water, a flint, and the rest you asked for.
2
The Strongs find the flint on which the Geisners strike the steel.
3
Burins and specialized flint tools were difficult to make in any case.
4
He is one of the best workers of flint I've ever known.
5
Let us walk along the cliffs together and search for flint arrows.
1
Home is New York, stony and tall: its real estate is real.
2
The soil in the valley was rich, but stony in some parts.
3
It drops here and there, in good ground and in stony places.
4
Perhaps His Grey Grace will choose you to ornament his stony court.
5
The stony-faced security team lead Ben back up to Clarke's twentieth-floor office.
1
The governor was obdurate in his decision to stick in the race.
2
But the French Court was obdurate; it would not furnish a penny.
3
She changes her mind; she is willing where before she was obdurate.
4
But her villa looks very dark; its closed windows are very obdurate.
5
The surface of his paintings is wall-like in itself: solid, obdurate, opaque.
1
The drift-clays are the result of the grinding up of granitic rocks.
2
This was poor, granitic country, no good for anything but growing trees.
3
The eruptions consequently took place at the lowest point of the granitic chain.
4
The little Indian village stands at the foot of a lofty granitic mountain.
5
Yet many a time I have seen those lips harden into granitic stubbornness.
Usage of flinty in English
1
I suppose she has always come across as a wee but flinty.
2
It must be hardened so as to make it a flinty steel.
3
The times were hard, and they called for men of flinty fibre.
4
It must have been disheartening work, picking away at the flinty ledges.
5
With flashing eyes, Justine Delande sprang up, facing the flinty-hearted old Scotsman.
6
Right here-betweenold Hugh Johnstone and this flinty-heartedwoman avenger-liesmy fortune.
7
Only a thin, provisional crust of topsoil covered the harsh, flinty ground.
8
You are hard with me, Elinor-alwaysflinty and adamantine, and that sort.
9
His expression remained mild, but the look in his eyes was flinty.
10
But then he saw the flinty, hot fury in his mother's face.
11
Katharine Hepburn, blue of stocking and blood, was the flinty east-coast patrician.
12
It was clean, stark, and functional, smelling of disinfectant and flinty dust.
13
There is something that must be done.' Her tone was dull and flinty.
14
And for the first time he realized the flinty basis of her nature.
15
Now had he the flinty heart and the cunning mind of his fathers.
16
These are flinty bodies perfectly insulated in strata both of chalk and sand.
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Flinty across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common