Tinder

//ˈtɪn.dɚ//

"Tinder" in a Sentence (17 examples)

Tinder is a popular online dating application.

Many people on Tinder are just looking for a short-term relationship.

Tom used dry moss as tinder to start the fire.

Tinder is a material that is easily ignited.

Kindling is just as important as tinder.

Tom used tinder to light the fire.

Mary used tinder to light the campfire.

Fire glows, burns and consumes to ashes. A spark of it struck from a flint (or firestone) by means of a steel, and taken by tinder in a tinder box, lights a match, and after that a candle, or a stick, and causes a flame, or blaze, which catches hold of houses.

The wood-pile was very dry, for it had not rained for a month. It burned like tinder, and by the time she reached the spot, nothing could be seen but flames.

Tom used part of an old wasp's nest as a tinder to get his campfire started.

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Strike on the Tinder, hoa: / Giue me a Taper: […]

Is heaven a murderer when its lightning strikes a would-be murderer in his bed, tindering sheets and skin together?

So sure, she’s a romantic, but quite a pragmatic one. “I was just thinking, ‘You know what? I’ve had shit luck with boys. I’ll try Tinder, Bumble and Love Island.’”

Famously, Tinder gamified the search for love, introducing that addictive swipe feature to its target audience: millennials.

I haven't been Tindering or doing the Plenty of Fish thing in quite some time because I've been seeing Date #2, and he's lovely. […] I'm not Tindering or frequenting POF because my heart still belongs to him, but up pops a message on the Friday night.

With Tinder, the pretext is to hook-up, but the real pleasure is derived from the Tindering process. […] Summing up the Tindering experience, Tinderers would rather judge 50 pictures in two minutes than spend 50 minutes assessing one potential partner in a traditional face-on-face dating environment.

There is a time to Tinder—sometimes it's a great escape, a great delight, a time of needed, almost medicinal, connection. Sometimes it even yields real, loving, and joyous relationships. And, there is a time to refrain from Tindering.

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