Kindling

//ˈkɪnd.lɪŋ//

"Kindling" in a Sentence (12 examples)

Whoops! There aren't many live coals left! Go make some kindling would you?

"I'll make meat strips out of Tom if I get my hands on him!" "Now, because of you, I'm hungry! Just tell me that you'll cut him into kindling! "

Kindling is just as important as tinder.

If you get to use your phone for that, I get to use it as kindling.

Matthew gathered some logs and kindling for the campfire.

Pinecones make good kindling for fires.

We collected pinecones to use as kindling.

Go and collect some kindling.

When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, and her pretty little Alsatian maid beside her, laying a log across the andirons.

December 14, 1784, Hester Rogers, letter to the Rev. Mr. Fletcher The kindlings of love which had been felt before, now became a flame in every believing soul; and when fallen on our knees, the power of God descended of a truth […]

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The morning o'er the gilded grove Bright on the kindling landscape fell, I sought her where she oft did rove In want and sorrow's lonely cell;—

Despite the damp wood, he had no trouble kindling a fire.

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