tindery
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of tindery
Example Sentences
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Fire broke out in "Tempo No. 4" quartering the Federal Trade Commission, burned savagely for three hours, gutted the tindery building, injured 20 firemen, destroyed countless Government files and documents.*
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Shasta to Vancouver Island and eastward into Montana, hundreds of fierce fires raged in tindery forests.
From Time Magazine Archive
West from this, there was neither track nor field to break the tindery sweeps of prairie grass, until the strip of breaking on the north boundary of the pasture was reached.
From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Lily Munsell Ritchie
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