tinderbox in English
dry winds and no rain have turned parts of the state into a tinderbox
Iron and flint I had in my brass tinderbox , and I knelt down by the rocky ledge and began to gather bits of bark.
Use "tinderbox" in a sentence
1. He took out the tinderbox and the candle.
2. You have got your money. Now, give me the tinderbox.
3. The refugee camps are a tinderbox waiting to catch fire.
4. Then he took out his tinderbox and struck the flint.
5. Dublin city is currently like a tinderbox just waiting to explode.
6. Referred to the crowded prison as a tinderbox of suppressed violence.
7. He took the money and the tinderbox and went to a town.
8. What do you want to do with this tinderbox? said the soldier.
9. But the old witch would not tell him how to use the tinderbox.
10. The racial tension in the area makes it a tinderbox ready to ignite.
11. This political tinderbox threatened to split the New Republic, but cooler heads prevailed.
12. The Balkans have a long and tragically deserved reputation as a political tinderbox.
13. At the top of the cellar steps Broadman knelt down and fumbled in his tinderbox.
14. And its neocolonial methods of governance in the north Caucasus have created a tinderbox.
15. The area is a tinderbox that could again plunge the country into civil war.
16. It was clearly a tinderbox situation with demonstrators likely to become violent at any moment.
17. They can go for years without rain there, and when that happens, the whole state turns into a tinderbox.
18. Others plan to leave the Southwest for northern states untouched by the drought that has left Arizona a tinderbox.
19. 17 Others plan to leave the Southwest for northern states untouched by the drought that has left Arizona a tinderbox.
20. The Burkini row may seem banal, and to some a surreal inversion of laws in Islamic countries, but it has become yet another flame in the murderous tinderbox of Islamism in …