Kindling is an English word with synonyms like tinder or burning. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Kindling meaning
- Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.
- The act by which something is kindled.
Synonyms of Kindling
Using Kindling
- The main meaning on this page is: Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire. | The act by which something is kindled.
- Useful related words include: tinder, burning, inflammation, lighting.
- In the example corpus, kindling often appears in combinations such as: as kindling, kindling to, and kindling.
Context around Kindling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 11 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Kindling
- In this selection, "kindling" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, became, open, customarily, power, productions and new stand out and add context to how "kindling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include be ourselves kindling the unique and fires than kindling. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "kindling" sits close to words such as abdelaziz, absolutist and accrual, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with kindling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
And its interest rate-sensitive securities portfolio became kindling for the current crisis. (13 words)
It is “a spark igniting a complex bundle of social kindling” (p. 128). (13 words)
After years, the monsoon kept its date kindling hopes of a bumper harvest. (13 words)
According to them, there is a lack of small Pals with Kindling power players have to resort to Pals that are too big for some spaces, which leaves them stuck on roofs or walls, preventing them from completing their tasks. (40 words)
The nadir might have been castration, but the bottom was reached well before Claude Neal was turned into a string of just-married cans, before his humanness was mistaken for a knife block, a sheet of shooting-range paper, kindling. (40 words)
From much-loved state parks to far-flung tent villages, mom-and-pop campgrounds to island getaways, these 25 spots are perfect for kindling a fire, rolling out a sleeping bag, and unwinding in the Maine outdoors. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
And its interest rate-sensitive securities portfolio became kindling for the current crisis.
In January, Fifty/50 will open Kindling, a two-story restaurant in Willis Tower that will serve live-fire cuisine.
According to them, there is a lack of small Pals with Kindling power players have to resort to Pals that are too big for some spaces, which leaves them stuck on roofs or walls, preventing them from completing their tasks.
During this day in the Braj region, individuals observe Holika Dahan or Chhoti Holi customarily, kindling a bonfire to commemorate the victory of Prahlad over Holika and the conquest of good over evil.
The end of the Trump era in the January 6th debacle simply ignited a bonfire for which the kindling had already been accumulating.
The film is presented by Jio Studios and produced by Aamir Khan Productions and Kiran Rao’s Kindling Productions.
All along, she was empowering us to be ourselves, kindling the unique flame burning inside each of us.
But, already, it is clear that power lines, in some areas, acted like a match to kindling.
From much-loved state parks to far-flung tent villages, mom-and-pop campgrounds to island getaways, these 25 spots are perfect for kindling a fire, rolling out a sleeping bag, and unwinding in the Maine outdoors.
Here are some ideas for kindling that warm, close feeling during the holidays – and all year round, pandemic or not.
Expect the perceived slight of a No. 2 seed to give Auriemma plenty of kindling to ignite a team that has not won a national title in forever, otherwise known as 2016.
It is “a spark igniting a complex bundle of social kindling” (p. 128).
It made me less lonely to hear it in the background: the mutter of the kindling, the sigh as a log caught, the little coughs, then quiet, as it burned down into ash.
Other precautionary methods include using a fi reguard, not stacking wood or kindling in close proximity to a fi replace, not overfi lling a fi replace and having working smoke detectors.
Staff, associate director of new student programs at BU, said the topic was an important part of kindling new ideas.
The nadir might have been castration, but the bottom was reached well before Claude Neal was turned into a string of just-married cans, before his humanness was mistaken for a knife block, a sheet of shooting-range paper, kindling.
We discovered the medicinal properties of the plants, how to pack wounds with moss, and learned that some fungi (King Alfred’s cake and birch polypore) can be more efficient for starting fires than kindling.
Whenever he put the logs and kindling in and someone piped up with the obvious joke, he'd point to it and charge them a quid.
When there is a fire in the area the vents suck flying embers and dump them onto parts of the house that are very dry and tend to have loose kindling material.
After years, the monsoon kept its date kindling hopes of a bumper harvest.
Common combinations with kindling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- as kindling 4×
- kindling to 3×
- and kindling 3×
- kindling for 2×
- the kindling 2×
- kindling the 2×
- for kindling 2×
- kindling fire 2×
- of kindling 2×
- kindling in 2×