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Example sentences for: flint

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skinflint In many parts of early America, necessities such as flint were scarce.
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.
USAT goes with the outbreak of a sympathy strike at a second Flint, Michigan GM plant.
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.
Not that he devised flint and steel, matches, or any other way of creating fire.