flint
noun
a hard stone, a form of silica resembling chalcedony but more opaque, less pure, and less lustrous.
flintlike
-
a word derived from
flint.
Example Sentences
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A nearby outcrop of a flintlike rock called chert, they believe, was the source for many of the stone tools they found: long, triangular blades shaped with six or seven deliberate, strategic strikes.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 30, 2011
By 7:30 a.m. on each working day, Sherman Adams was at his plain metal desk in the uncarpeted, uncurtained office that seemed as flintlike and efficient as the man who was occupying it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Difficult questions left unanswered: Can an atomic bomb penetrate 1,800 feet of hard-packed, flintlike ice?
From Time Magazine Archive
Then engineers devised a method of extracting iron from crushed taconite, a flintlike rock that contains some 25% iron.
From Time Magazine Archive
Malcolm Neil sat like a graven image, no expression showing on his flintlike face nor in his eyes.
From The Gray Dawn by Stewart Edward White
