Example Sentences

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There are certainly flints of autobiography and different friends in different characters — they’ve read it and liked it, and if they saw themselves, they were pleasant about it.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

In the chemical industry, cerium is widely used in oil refining and glass polishing -- as well as in flints for cigarette lighters.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

More than 3,500 finds were discovered during the excavation, including animal bone, glass and worked flints and 1,405 broken pieces of pottery.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2024

Although the electric drills used today are a far cry from the handheld flints and metal tools used thousands of years ago, the objective — making a hole in the skull — is the same.

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2023

“Might have taken three flints in this case.”

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry