flinty

Example Sentences

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Descended from riesling and trollinger, the kerner grape showed off flinty mineral notes with a touch of raisins and honey — like its parent riesling, but with its own style.

From New York Times

With Hawkins’s alternately elfin and flinty performance at its center, “The Lost King” winds up being a paean to amateurism and unconventionality.

From Washington Post

Kathleen is the flinty leader of a resistance movement, tough as tungsten nails.

From New York Times

Violin, saxophone and an unruly electric guitar all emerge at points to wrestle with Bock’s bracing vocal, but each one ultimately cedes the spotlight to her flinty presence.

From New York Times

Fly, flinty and self-created, Regina was at one time both the paper’s publisher and editor in chief.

From New York Times