flinty

How To Use flinty In A Sentence

• Instead, we butted through the heaving, flinty grey water towards the narrow passageway that separates Karmoy from the mainland.
• Portraying the flinty faces of science - daunting complexity twinned with numbing wonder - demands both craft and art.
• Who can resist the flinty crispness of baked pecans, suspended in a maple-goo inside short, buttery pastry?
• London metropolitan types also think I possess a kind of doughty flinty independent spirit which they wish they had so they too could flee the bars of Charlotte Street and the watering holes of Soho.
• On the outside she is as hard as nails, those flinty eyes constantly darting about, seeking the next opportunity to make a quick buck. The Sun
• Meanwhile at the opposite counter a deaf and grisly tradesman was casting a flinty look at certain cards, apparently combining advantages of business with religion, and shoutingly proposed to him in Daniel Deronda
• Burley was hewn from flinty, industrial Ayrshire.
• She often has only a few moments of screentime to get across what phase Lureen is in, but as we follow her from a wild and flirty girl to a flinty woman trapped in a loveless marriage we feel a complete and three dimensional character.
• Her character, Anna, is one of the great female parts - too flinty to be dismissed as a ladette, too smart to be written off as a hedonistic bimbo.
• In their intense concentration, they neither move nor whimper while their brown fur, wet and bemired with hunting, appears all of one color with the earth like two animate objects formed from the flinty Pennsylvania soil.