tinderbox

How To Use tinderbox In A Sentence

• Original sin, he said, turned the human heart into a fomes peccati (tinderbox or powder keg of sin), operative at all times, even in the regenerate.
• He took out the tinderbox and the candle.
• He had a tinderbox in his robe, and he knocked the flint against the steel until the sparks caught the tinder and the fire flamed. SMOKE AND MIRRORS
• I flicked open the tinderbox, struggled with the flint several times before getting a light, and held it up with a shaking hand.
• All homes in tinderbox zones should be designed so that the likelihood of fires spreading to other homes is reduced. What Is the State of U.S. Disaster-Preparedness? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
• Years of drought, along with tree diseases and bugs among the foothills 'pine and chaparral, have turned the area into a "tinderbox," Goodell said. SacBee -- Latest News
• Even so, an ongoing drought and millions of acres of dead, bark beetle infected trees have turned much of the west into a potential tinderbox.
• Proms suck, but lighting a fire under the tinderbox of mouthbreather bigotry is far worse than dumb dance. Think Progress » Lesbian Constance McMillen excluded from alternative prom organized by students’ parents.
• As the California energy fiasco has demonstrated, the maladjusted U.S. economy is replete with inflationary ‘tinderboxes’ waiting for sparks.
• Years of drought in the Tehachapi area, along with tree diseases and bugs among the foothills 'pine and chaparral, have turned the area into a "tinderbox," said county fire Battalion Chief David Goodell. Tehachapi Fire Burns Dozens Of Homes, Threatens 150