Examples of 'tinderbox' in a sentence
Meaning of "tinderbox"
tinderbox (noun): A small container used to store flammable material like tinder, historically used to start fires in a quick and controlled manner
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- A small container containing flint, steel, and tinder (dry, finely-divided fibrous matter), once used to help kindle a fire.
- A place that is so dry and hot that there is danger of fire.
- A potentially dangerous situation.
How to use "tinderbox" in a sentence
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To make sure his tinderbox stays bare.
I really tried to stop using the tinderbox.
I lit the tinderbox and watched the bonfire.
This place ought to go up like a tinderbox.
Place was a tinderbox just waiting to go.
Tinderbox conditions also forced an early ban on campfires.
It appears your tinderbox is ready to explode.
Turns out the whole place is like a tinderbox.
A goddamned tinderbox of nigger rage just waiting to explode.
The whole place was going up like a tinderbox.
Dublin city is currently like a tinderbox just waiting to explode.
You sent me here because the region is a tinderbox.
A tinderbox is a container with the essential tools to make a fire.
This place could go up like a tinderbox.
A tinderbox waiting to catch fire.
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The whole place is like a tinderbox.
I have a tinderbox somewhere.
Now this entire landscape is a tinderbox.
This place is a tinderbox waiting for the smallest spark to explode.
This whole thing is a nuclear tinderbox.
India is a very tinderbox that waits upon the merest spark.
Will be the spark that lights the tinderbox.
Thousands of tinderbox homes.
Idlib is a political and humanitarian tinderbox.
We are in a tinderbox in here.
This match could light the whole tinderbox.
He then strikes the tinderbox and the three monstrous dogs appear.
This place oughta go up like a tinderbox.
The city is a tinderbox and any disturbance of its status quo will lead to violence.
In a safe in the north you can purchase a tinderbox.
This takes the societal tinderbox that already exists and makes it downright explosive.
This entire country is a tinderbox.
Now if only TinderBox can find a solution to the dreaded RFP.
You will find a tinderbox.
Tinderbox enables participants in an OSS project to detect errors during system integration.
This whole place is a tinderbox.
With Paris as the tinderbox France teetered on the very edge of a revolution.
We have to get this matchstick away from the tinderbox.
From each tinderbox.
And the static electricity inside the aircraft makes it a virtual tinderbox.
Harlem is a tinderbox.
A region where small skirmishes can trigger big wars would turn into a nuclear tinderbox.
The dry summer months had turned the forest into a tinderbox ready to explode into flames.
Players control rival firehouses offering protection to the good citizens of Tinderbox.
The whole system has been a tinderbox since Earth.
Volt at Tinderbox with online discount.
This place is going up like a tinderbox.
The war in eastern Ukraine remains a tinderbox that could ignite into a much bigger conflict.
I never go anywhere without my tinderbox.
The tinderbox conditions helped wildfires spread rapidly in October and November.
