tinder
Example Sentences
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This tinder caught fire when food prices spiked again in 2010, triggered by a historic Russian drought that wiped out a third of the country’s wheat harvest.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
The Cowork plug-ins were like a match on dry tinder.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
But a week later, powerful Santa Ana winds arrived, and coupled with single-digit humidity, they turned the landscape into bone-dry tinder ready to burn.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025
“The tinder was there for something like Friday to occur,” said Mike Thompson, co-portfolio manager at Little Harbor Advisors.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 14, 2025
He had told me that if I ran out of tinder, I should burn cloth, and use the charred ashes.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Vocabulary lists containing tinder
Inferno Lingo: Fire Vocabulary
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