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
This article was the tinder we needed in my Saturday group where we typically have three to four foursomes playing a team game.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
Blankfein added that the long period without a financial crisis cleansing process meant ”you accumulate tinder on the floor of the forest and eventually a spark will come.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 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
His hands trembling, he held his piece of tinder next to the chains on Death’s right leg.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
Vocabulary lists containing tinder
Inferno Lingo: Fire Vocabulary
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Unit 1: Telling Details
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"Uprising," Vocabulary from the historical novel
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