How to Use flintlock in a Sentence
flintlock
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Asameni holds a Danish flintlock gun in his right hand and a bunch of keys in his left hand.
—Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann, Quartz Africa, 13 July 2019
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The Oba’s soldiers had flintlock rifles, bows and arrows, and clubs; the British had 38 Maxim machine guns.
—Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 4 June 2021
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In the left talon is a cocked flintlock pistol, which symbolizes land warfare and a state of constant readiness.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Oct. 2020
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Elsewhere, there are flintlock rifles and camel saddlebags; kilims and suzanis; chain mail shirts and Tartar helmets.
—Rod Nordland, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018
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The last U.S. flintlock pistol came in 1836, the same year Samuel Colt patented his revolutionary new revolving pistol.
—Matthew Moss, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2017
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Using parts from any number of online vendors, a gun hobbyist could build his own Colonial-era flintlock rifle or a Wild West replica six-shooter.
—BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2019
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Guns have always been part of our story, since the beginning, when flintlock muskets were the instruments of our American Revolution.
—Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 21 May 2018
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In the late 18th century, there was no one more associated with flintlock dueling pistols than Robert Wogdon.
—Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 2 July 2020
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Remington, the country's oldest gun maker, began making flintlock rifles in 1816.
—Jeff Amy, ajc, 8 Nov. 2021
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But a journalist who parachutes into the Sixth District, expecting to write about tax policy or health care, soon ends up pondering stranger questions: Is civility simply outmoded in 2018, the equivalent of bringing a flintlock musket to a gunfight?
—Kyle Peterson, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2018
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Firing demonstrations of reproduction flintlock muskets take place on weekends.
—Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2021
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