tindery
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of tindery
Example Sentences
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Indeed, the leak came at a tindery time for U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East.
From Time Magazine Archive
No; this time the Agriculture Department wants no radishy "Victory Gardens" in tindery back yards.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tindery old clapboards went up with a roar.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shasta to Vancouver Island and eastward into Montana, hundreds of fierce fires raged in tindery forests.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sapless age makes it tindery, and the decaying fibre descends in dust—glissades of dust which form moraines within the hollow of the base.
From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
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