Examples of 'flinty' in a sentence

Meaning of "flinty"

Flinty is an adjective used to describe something that is hard, unyielding, or showing a lack of emotion
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  • Resembling or containing flint.
  • Siliceous (including basanite).
  • Showing a lack of emotion.
  • Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines, especially Chablis, supposed to evoke the sensation of flint striking steel.

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They would be kind of fierce and flinty.
Into the flinty soil of china.
I appear to have ggot on your flinty side.
Flinty McSandman made him up.
May tear a passage through the flinty ribs.
A certain flinty integrity has gone.
The underlying bedrock of the hills is a flinty limestone.
That flinty rock could not of itself furnish water.
Nevertheless he clung to the old flinty.
The volcanic soils create flinty cheeses and superb lentils.
We see a flinty place and can not conceive that it hides a refreshing fountain.
You have brought a tear to this flinty old eye.
One day he encounters a flinty old man who has even more secrets than he does.
You can also try marinating foods in vinegar to get rid of that flinty flavor.
The omnipresent flinty clays are sometimes heavy and shelter the best terroirs for red wine.

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The plateau is covered with a layer of flinty clay and a fertile silt.
A flinty entry from Pauleta.
He will make them draw honey from the rock and oil from the flinty rock.
Man sets his hand against the flinty rock And overturns mountains by the roots.
We Yankees have been termed hard and flinty.
Even old Flinty feared him.
They saw God bring water out of the flinty rock.
He is as flinty as Rose Trellis.
How these vain weak nails May tear a passage through the flinty ribs.
Aw, she called me flinty and pulchritudinous.
The famed laissez faire liberalism of the Dutch is only matched by their flinty commonsense.
Transport of flinty sand, cement and carbonate of calcium.
Wicked sense of humor Flinty had.
This cold flinty heart, it is you who have warmed.
Because I will never forget that flinty voice.
Hard, flinty portions of ground maize containing little or no bran or germs.
Cause I will never forget that flinty voice.
But thanks to flinty hearts, even quacks can make a profit.
A new tonality had crept into the bronchial music-something tight and flinty and percussive -.
We see a flinty place, and we can not tell it is the hiding place of a fountain.
The White is mineral, with a flinty taste.
That flinty steel-eyed stare that makes those men turn into sniveling little girls.
Ya always were a poor businessman, Flinty.
Obama said he would have to instill “ some flinty Chicago toughness ” into Washingtonians.
And you can survive too, if you listen to oie Flinty.
Whose heart, the flinty mountains could not match… Who always took better than he gave.
These connoisseurs seem to think that our Médoc is too… flinty.
Rather than have all explained. A flinty and ironic distance that forced the viewer to understand.
You see? You have brought a tear to this flinty old eye.
Slightly on the flinty side, I think you will find.
Oh, she had a temper, her eyes could go quite flinty.
Because I will never forget that flinty voice . It is tattooed in my brain.
The flinty path sparkles in the mist ;.
The President said he would have to bring " some flinty Chicago toughness " to Washington.
Evil, flinty little things.

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