tinder
Example Sentences
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"Everything is tinder dry and when you've got a wind behind that, and we've got a source of ignition, it will spread beyond what people could even recognise," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Heavy rainfall followed by extreme heat created the perfect tinder, as flames spread through regions of France and Spain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The disasters, coming at the peak of the summer vacation period when tourists flock to both countries, were fuelled by woodlands parched to tinder by successive heatwaves and lack of rain since May.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 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 stomach would make a waterskin; the bladder a spare tinder pouch; the Hilts would store nuts.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Vocabulary lists containing tinder
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