flinty

Example Sentences

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People try to be nice about it, but let’s face it, it’s cold, flinty and cheap looking.

From The Wall Street Journal

Her look was daunting; wry and flinty and knowing.

From Literature

Their pay has been frozen at the equivalent of $100 a year ever since flinty voters etched it into the state constitution back in ’89.

From The Wall Street Journal

But there is still a combination of flinty determination and composure under pressure that has restricted England to just eight victories in 46 meetings across more than a century.

From BBC

"It's a big old cheese -- there's a lot going on. The texture is beautiful: it's flinty as you break it apart; the crystalline in there are so delicate," he said.

From Barron's