How to Use kindle in a Sentence

kindle

verb

• And that's kindling both great hopes and intense fears.
  — Rob Stein, NPR, 6 Aug. 2025
• Which kindling splitter is best?
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
• There's a lot of kindling around, and there's a lot of like newspapers that can catch on fire.
  — Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025
• In the same story, Faith does not brew a pot of coffee but kindles it.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
• But events conspire to kindle a tiny, perhaps delirious spark of hope.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 June 2026
• But, as with many of life’s losses, there can be a point where the desire to kindle a new friendship emerges.
  — Mariashines, cleveland, 24 July 2023
• Size Most, but not all, kindling splitters feature a hoop on top that helps hold the log in place.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
• The drought and near-record temperatures dried out the lush scrub, turning it to kindling.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025
• Nation brings to the table enough moxie to kindle a climb up the player rankings.
  — Kyle Kelly, cleveland, 28 May 2021
• Results like this have kindled strong interest in smart carts on the part of grocers worldwide.
  — Gil Press, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• Still, the hearing last year that reduced his sentence kindled some optimism.
  — Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, 9 Oct. 2025
• The fires that tore through the neighborhoods of Lahaina picked up speed as homes became kindling amid flames and high winds.
  — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
• Even minor parks or embers might be carried into leaves or grass, kindling a fire that can swiftly expand.
  — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026
• Shape is a digital tool engineered to kindle the flames of the creative prowess.
  — Kristen Lynch, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• Traders and investors are laser-focused on the inflation being kindled by higher oil prices.
  — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
• These movies create on-screen worlds that kindle positive emotions while offering a few laughs.
  — S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2020
• Hearing his music in 2020 can kindle a glimmer of hope for our grim future.
  — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2020
• Carlson pressed, perhaps hoping to kindle a spark of recognition.
  — Jason Zengerle, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
• This was the orchestra society’s salute to the Navy and the musicians kindled a flame of melody that warmed the crowd.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
• Or kindle a few candles to celebrate rebirth and new possibilities for the new year.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 15 Dec. 2020
• Splitting a log with a firewood kindling splitter can accomplish all of that quickly and easily.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
• That decision may serve as the kindling other college basketball players need to unionize their teams.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2024
• Sours’ passion kindled Jones’ passion, inspiring her to keep sewing for her own family and to always perfect her work.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2023
• Refrain from kindling fires with debris or any other materials during an air quality alert.
  — Southern California Weather Report, Daily News, 19 May 2026
• The burst of activity is kindling hope that the moribund IPO market might be poised for a revival.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2023
• Rather than have their payroll and egos be kindling for clubhouse dysfunction, the Dodgers have found a formula to keep their winning ways going.
  — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
• Nothing kindles the meme fires quite like mass familiarity, and that the wine was already known and loved made its recent moment in the sun feel like one big inside joke.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 18 Jan. 2024
• In addition to this, bosses and parents see you in such a positive way that some of you will kindle a romance with someone in authority.
  — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 13 Aug. 2025
• In some instances, the amygdala is doing the opposite of kindling fear—instead, trying to quell fear, and in doing so, inhibits breathing.
  — Julia Daye, Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2025
• Fast ignition instead uses a second laser to kindle the burn once the fuel reaches maximum density.
  — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 15 Feb. 2023