Margaret Peters
Examples of tinder in a Sentence
Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
First, have your child collect small twigs and bark (tinder), short sticks (kindling), and larger logs (fuel).
—Nicole Harris, Parents, 25 Oct. 2023
Some of the company’s poles are surrounded by invasive grasses that can become explosive tinder in the dry season.
—Peter Eavis, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2023
This has created an oversupply of tinder that should have been cleared long ago by healthier fire cycles.
—Omar Mouallem, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2023
Position your tinder bundle at the focal point until the concentrated sunlight ignites the tinder.
—Jim Baird, Field & Stream, 28 June 2023
But if financial disparities between executives and workers are the tinder, to borrow Ryan’s Burn It Down metaphor, Hollywood has been stockpiling the fuel for years.
—Maria Aspan, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2023
The spark was the arrest of 21-year-old Marquette Frye, the tinder a community simmering with resentment at police mistreatment.
—Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 30 July 2023
Top Load Light the tinder inside your tepee, and feed the fire from the top as needed to customize the blaze, like a mood-setting dimmer switch.
—T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
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Word History
Middle English, from Old English tynder; akin to Old High German zuntra tinder, Old English tendan to kindle
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Tinder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tinder. Accessed 10 Dec. 2023.
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