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
As winds sprang up along the tindery countryside, every chimney spark, every pile of smoldering leaves, every discarded cigarette seemed to explode into a forest fire.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shasta to Vancouver Island and eastward into Montana, hundreds of fierce fires raged in tindery forests.
From Time Magazine Archive
He caught up a bundle of dried grass, and Jack took up several sticks, dry and tindery, ready to burst into flame as soon as a light was set to them.
From Jack Haydon's Quest by John Jellicoe
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