kindling

But in those circumstances, short sellers provide dry kindling for a conflagration because when the stock jumps, they race to buy it at any price and return borrowed shares.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

An ash tree in my yard dropped a limb and reduced my fence to kindling.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 21, 2026

We matter as much to him as a firestorm cares about kindling.

From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2026

It was the excess on show on the social media accounts of politicians' children that provided the kindling for Nepal's Gen Z uprising last year.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026

Still, every day at the ringing of the three Congregational bells, Turner left his kindling and set off to Mrs. Cobb’s house, and every afternoon Lizzie would be there.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

Their previous album, II, had kindlings of groove but Multi-Love is lit up by it like a fairground at night.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2015

Cut into pieces, the apple tree can be carpentered into a table, or at the least its kindlings will give off a splendid flame.

From Time Magazine Archive

Which of the following natural fine kindlings will not reliably ignite?

From Time Magazine Archive

Now the smoke was simply pouring out, not only out of the paper but out of the kindlings, too.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

She was so interested in imagining the piles and piles of kindlings she would cut that she forgot to listen to what Mother and Daddy said next.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen