Example sentences for: flint

How can you use “flint” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • USAT goes with the outbreak of a sympathy strike at a second Flint, Michigan GM plant.

  • The Sunbeam board's eagerness to get rid of Chainsaw Al is a marked contrast to the story I've been working; namely, the United Auto Workers strikes against General Motors in Flint, Mich.

  • The pan is the part of the gunlock that contains a small quantity of fine gunpowder ignited by sparks produced by the flint shearing small bits of metal from the frizzen . A small hole bored in the barrel allows the charge to be ignited.

  • Skinflint is not an American expression describing a parsimonious “gun toter” saving money by “skinning” his flint with his knife to avoid buying a new one.

  • skinflint In many parts of early America, necessities such as flint were scarce.


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