How to Use tinder in a Sentence

tinder

noun

• Or use a small square of duct tape—sticky side up—as a base for tinder.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 28 Dec. 2020
• There are two primary types of fire starters: the spark and the tinder.
  — Chris Meehan, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2022
• Heat makes forests more tinder dry and more fire-prone.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 9 June 2023
• To start the fire, place tinder on top of the log and allow some of it to fall into the notches.
  — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2016
• Australia is in the midst of a prolonged drought, making much of the land tinder dry.
  — Carrie Hutchinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Jan. 2020
• Large parts of forests will die, and the dead trees will become tinder for wildfire.
  — Allegra Kirkland, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2019
• Wark said this is the time of year that any snow has long since melted and there’s plenty of dry tinder on the ground.
  — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2023
• Use a match to light the tinder, slowly adding the additional sticks and logs as the fire builds.
  — Nicole Harris, Parents, 25 Oct. 2023
• Form a tepee with three 6-inch-tall sticks, and place smaller sticks on the floor as a platform for the tinder.
  — Michael Stillwell, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
• Gently add more tinder to the flame, making sure to block any rain drops with your hands or body.
  — Jim Baird, Field & Stream, 1 Oct. 2020
• The trees and grasses of eastern Canada turned to tinder.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 8 June 2023
• And all the snowmelt has brilliantly greened what’s often a dry, brown tinder box by this time of year.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• As boggy soils drain to rivers and oceans in the Arctic, peaty soils will dry out and turn into tinder.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2019
• And the more overlap, the more dry tinder there is to keep this pandemic going.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2021
• Fire bags were used by the Dena’ina people to carry fire-making tools and tinder.
  — Author: Joaqlin Estus, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2021
• Or twist strips of duct tape into tinder sticks 6 to 8 inches long.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 28 Dec. 2020
• Wildfires have torched vast swathes of the U.S. and Europe amid tinder dry weather this year.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• Twist strips of duct tape into tinder sticks 6 to 8 inches long.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2017
• Lean kindling sticks against each other over a mound of tinder.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2021
• The massive influx of weapons added tinder to those conflicts.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2019
• The new app Just A Baby is like Tinder on prenatal steroids.
  — Nicole Spector, NBC News, 9 May 2017
• Autocrats may stoke polarization, but the tinder has to be in place for the fire to start.
  — Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
• Few others in the lush coastal region shared his level of concern, even as drought turned the area tinder-dry.
  — NBC News, 9 Feb. 2020
• That was followed by months of extreme heat that withered the new growth and turned it into more tinder.
  — Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
• The idea is to send out the four-legged laborers to munch through brush and leaf litter that can act as tinder during hot, dry years.
  — Alice Uribe, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
• But the lungs are choking on smoke—the Earth has gone emphysemic—and the leaders most in a position to fix things are adding tinder to the flames.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 Sep. 2019
• And the Equal Rights Amendment is the tinder that can spark the unstoppable fire of equality in this country.
  — Betty Folliard, Twin Cities, 25 Aug. 2019
• With the snow gone early, brown grass and bare trees made for tinder to fuel fires earlier this year.
  — Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2021
• Greece has been roiled by hundreds of wildfires this month, on the heels of its most severe heat wave in decades, which left its forests tinder-dry.
  — Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2021
• The six-function multi-tool also works as a straight-edge striker, tinder scraper, map scale, ruler, hex wrench and bottle opener.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024