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a flinty and determined hero
a flinty warrior hardened by years of battle
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Horns, woodwinds, and percussion are particularly gorgeous, with a lyrical, sometimes flinty brilliance that always steers clear of sharpness.
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Ryan Waniata, Wired News, 10 June 2025
The camera loved the flinty angularity of his jaw, the slope of his nose, the perfect bow shape of his upper lip.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Slight lime color in this 13% alcohol wine with flinty, mineral aromas followed by lime, grapefruit, gooseberry and wet granite.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
Retiring with a masterpiece would have been too sentimental a finale for an actor as flinty as this guy.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2025
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Ryan Waniata, Wired News, 10 June 2025
The camera loved the flinty angularity of his jaw, the slope of his nose, the perfect bow shape of his upper lip.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Slight lime color in this 13% alcohol wine with flinty, mineral aromas followed by lime, grapefruit, gooseberry and wet granite.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
Retiring with a masterpiece would have been too sentimental a finale for an actor as flinty as this guy.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for flinty
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“Flinty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flinty. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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