flint
noun
a hard stone, a form of silica resembling chalcedony but more opaque, less pure, and less lustrous.
flints
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pluralof flint.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In the chapter titled “Cerium,” Levi describes how, wracked with hunger, he stole iron-cerium rods to make flints for cigarette lighters so that he could exchange them for bread.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
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
“Might have taken three flints in this case.”
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
