kindling in English

noun
1
easily combustible small sticks or twigs used for starting a fire.
In the forest there is no shortage of kindling , sticks, short logs or anything else needed to kindle a vigorous campfire and keep it burning effortlessly.
2
(in neurology) a process by which a seizure or other brain event is both initiated and its recurrence made more likely.
Although the significance of kindling in alcohol withdrawal is debated, this phenomenon may be important in the selection of medications to treat withdrawal.
verb
1
light or set on fire.
Last night I built the first fire I've kindled in years and it came back to me, that instinctual pull of watching the flames catch, of stirring the embers, and poking the logs until they burn brightly.
synonyms:lightigniteset alightset light toset fire toput a match to
2
(of a hare or rabbit) give birth.
Some rabbit owners are fortunate enough to witness the rabbit kindling .

Use "kindling" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "kindling" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "kindling", or refer to the context using the word "kindling" in the English Dictionary.

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2. The log has slivered into kindling.

3. Must achieve the kindling point.

4. And then finally, kindling... and tinder.

5. Constrictor knot used to bundle some kindling

6. So is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.

7. The girl touched a lighted match to the kindling.

8. There were neat piles of kindling wood against the wall.

9. Prometheus's kindling material fills the air in here recovers.

10. You can shorten the interval between kindling and Breeding …

11. Well, the whole damn place was just made out of kindling.

12. Oh, the Boy Scout's gathering the right kindling up the river.

13. Overhanging balconies, neat piles of kindling wood against every wall.

14. Today’s consumer-oriented culture excels at kindling the fires of greed.

15. To heat it, they chopped kindling to fire their wood stoves.

16. Oh, the Boy Scout' s gathering the right kindling up the river

17. He would have reached for a broom or a piece of kindling.

18. Wang Ping: It was said that the kindling be from Olympia.

19. Candles and tarred kindling, and spices, Carrie thought, wrinkling her nose.

20. I had to gather kindling too, for storing in a dry place.

21. Bonfires may only be kindled past 10 after players obtain the Rite of Kindling

22. But I knew I could manage to stagger to my feet and find fresh kindling.

23. Synonyms for Candescence include combustion, burning, incineration, kindling, agitation, cremation, firing, flaming, igniting and ignition

24. Jimmy made a wide sweep of the littered clearing, finding his own kind of kindling.

25. Lucien did so, and behind him he felt a kindling of curious scrutiny from the musicians.

26. Wistar rats, made diabetic by intravenous administration of alloxan, 40 mg/kg, were submitted to amygdala kindling.

27. Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. Socrates 

28. Edusha had lighted some kindling, but it had not taken, so the coals did not burn.

29. It was hot, and the hills were brown and dry, laid out like a pile of kindling.

30. The aristocrats would be the kindling for a roaring fire fueled by the fats of social exploitation.

31. Torches were again put to the kindling but the fire only teased the victim's feet and ankles.

32. Should the relationship-savvy person... stoke the fires of passion with the kindling of work and friends?

33. There are many synonyms of Candescence which include Agitation, Disturbance, Flaming, Ignition, Kindling, Oxidization, Tumult, Turmoil, Thermogenesis, etc.

34. He hung it back in its place, then knelt to put screwed-up newspaper and kindling in the grate.

35. She was shuddering in distaste when Travis came in carrying an armful of kindling, which he tossed down by the fire.

36. The man burst into the kitchen carrying a great mound of kindling which he dumped in a pile by the door.

37. In her dark cellar kitchen she showed me how to lay the kindling and pour kerosene to fire her wood-burning stove.

38. The old literary journal on the kindling pile is as satisfying as the newest ones creating a stir back in the city.

39. Test results show that waste tire is suitable for combusting because of its trait of low kindling point and rapid-velocity combustion.

40. Objective: To explore the distribution of heat shock protein 70 (HSP in the brain of rat with status epilepticus induced by pentylenetetrazol (PTZ) kindling.

41. Despite their water dwelling nature, the dried heads of Bullrushes can be used as kindling for fires, or dripped in wax and made into candles

42. Now that the Dakota Fire Hole is properly constructed, you can partially fill the fire pit chamber with dry combustible kindling materials and light the fire.

43. These multi-purpose Crocks are excellent for storing kindling, magazines and newspapers, holding a small Xmas tree, making corned beef, sauerkraut, and pickles, or keeping beverages cold on ice

44. In view of this, the miraculous fire manifested itself, not in kindling the wood on the altar, but in “consuming the burnt offering and the fatty pieces upon the altar.”

45. A Briquette (also spelled briquet) is a compressed block of coal dust (Speight, 2013) or other combustible material (such as charcoal, sawdust, wood chips, peat, or paper) used for fuel as well as for kindling to start a fire.

46. 2009, Matthew Reilly, The Five Greatest Warriors (novel), Simon and Schuster (2010), →ISBN, page 118: Then he loaded one of the lattice-shrouded cannonballs into the trebuchet’s sling, pulled out a lighter, and, as Genghis Khan’s Catapulters would have done 800 years previously, lit the wooden kindling inside it and fired

47. I have no recollection of Burnets—native or cultivated—before my back-to-back encounters with great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis) in the South Korean countryside and on the grassy steppes of Siberia.The sight of its curious purple-red flowers wind-dancing on tall wiry stems stayed with me, kindling thoughts about Burnets in the garden and wondering why they weren’t more commonly grown