tinder
Example Sentences
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But the mixture of "tinder dry" pine and intense heat helped upend things on day five when the family was awoken on Friday morning.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
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
She learned how to set the tinder in place so that the wood caught fire as quickly as possible; she learned how to breathe gently on the first sparks to coax them into flame.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
Vocabulary lists containing tinder
Inferno Lingo: Fire Vocabulary
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Unit 1: Telling Details
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