How to Use flintlock in a Sentence

flintlock

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Remington, the country's oldest gun maker, began making flintlock rifles in 1816.
  — Jeff Amy, ajc, 8 Nov. 2021
• 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
• Firing demonstrations of reproduction flintlock muskets take place on weekends.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2021

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