How To Use Tinderbox In A Sentence
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She slipped her feet into her shoes then threw on a clean dress, not bothering to tie half of the laces, and around her waist she put on the old belt that had her pouch with the tinderbox in it.
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So now our tinderbox, and cauldron, and roasting fork, and bowls - all of these needful and precious things for our journeying - would lose their importance and become no more than what they were.
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MARTIN: You know, similarly, Mary Kate, your former boss, in the days after the Los Angeles riots in the wake of the Rodney King verdict, also, you know, faced a similar, it's not quite the same thing, but a very sort of similar kind of tinderbox situation.
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She closed the tinderbox, snuffing the flames, then settled back down where she was lying before.
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The racial tension in the area makes it a tinderbox ready to ignite.
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While many experts agree that the national forests have become tinderboxes, there is strong disagreement even within the U.S. Forest Service on how to handle the issue.
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In hot, dry summers every tree is a potential tinderbox.
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The tinderbox is a system set up 40 years ago to make changes in the Legislature-approved budget when lawmakers aren't in session.
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the Balkans are the tinderbox of Europe
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MSPs and prison officers say Fairweather's findings show that Scotland's jails are tinderboxes.
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Decades of fire suppression and scattershot suburban development have created a tinderbox and now you have seen the results.
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Iron and flint I had in my brass tinderbox, and I knelt down by the rocky ledge and began to gather bits of bark.
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George Clooney travelled to Sudan as part of an international effort to defuse the short term tinderbox of a controversial poll.
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The area is a tinderbox that could again plunge the country into civil war.
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He placed three logs in it then took out a tinderbox.
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And, a three-year drought has turned forests and swamps to tinderboxes.
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Years of drought in the Tehachapi area, along with tree diseases and bugs among the foothills 'pine and chaparral, have turned the area into a "tinderbox," said county fire Battalion Chief
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Dublin city is currently like a tinderbox just waiting to explode.
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Martin calls the stepfamily a "tinderbox of sorts," when you consider the combination of the stepmother's relational tendencies with that of her often less emotional or relational husband and a bunch of resentful stepkids.
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Years of drought in the Tehachapi area, along with tree diseases and bugs among the foothills 'pine and chaparral, have turned the area into a "tinderbox," said county fire Battalion Chief David Goodell.
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He took out the tinderbox and the candle.
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He had a tinderbox in his robe, and he knocked the flint against the steel until the sparks caught the tinder and the fire flamed.
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I flicked open the tinderbox, struggled with the flint several times before getting a light, and held it up with a shaking hand.
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All homes in tinderbox zones should be designed so that the likelihood of fires spreading to other homes is reduced.
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Years of drought, along with tree diseases and bugs among the foothills 'pine and chaparral, have turned the area into a "tinderbox," Goodell said.
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Even so, an ongoing drought and millions of acres of dead, bark beetle infected trees have turned much of the west into a potential tinderbox.
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Proms suck, but lighting a fire under the tinderbox of mouthbreather bigotry is far worse than dumb dance.
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As the California energy fiasco has demonstrated, the maladjusted U.S. economy is replete with inflationary ‘tinderboxes’ waiting for sparks.
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Original sin, he said, turned the human heart into a fomes peccati (tinderbox or powder keg of sin), operative at all times, even in the regenerate.
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The refugee camps are a tinderbox waiting to catch fire.
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Others plan to leave the Southwest for northern states untouched by the drought that has left Arizona a tinderbox.
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The racial tension in the area makes it a tinderbox ready to ignite.
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That house was a tinderbox of memories; it had seen so many parties and Christmases, each one stuffed with relatives and friends chatting amiably, that even the footworn rug or a model of Volkswagen Beetle on the fireplace could spark fond reminiscences.
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Nearby Silas's cottage, they find a tinderbox, which makes a townsman recall that a peddler who'd come to town recently carried a tinderbox.
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Everyone knew the stand was a bit of a tinderbox, but none actually thought it would go up.
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It was clearly a tinderbox situation with demonstrators likely to become violent at any moment.
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And the president should have done it earlier, is lay out what kind of tinderbox situation we have in the Middle East.
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