How to Use kindle in a Sentence

kindle

verb

• In the same story, Faith does not brew a pot of coffee but kindles it.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
• But, as with many of life’s losses, there can be a point where the desire to kindle a new friendship emerges.
  — Mariashines, cleveland, 24 July 2023
• That leaves Mariani to kindle flames of hope for Le Pen.
  — Elaine Ganley, Star Tribune, 25 June 2021
• This was the orchestra society’s salute to the Navy and the musicians kindled a flame of melody that warmed the crowd.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
• The fires that tore through the neighborhoods of Lahaina picked up speed as homes became kindling amid flames and high winds.
  — Olivia Mitchell, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
• Nation brings to the table enough moxie to kindle a climb up the player rankings.
  — Kyle Kelly, cleveland, 28 May 2021
• James, who’s on leave from his teaching job while filling in for his father, got up today at 4:30 a.m. to kindle a fire in the fireplace.
  — Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
• Hearing his music in 2020 can kindle a glimmer of hope for our grim future.
  — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2020
• The burst of activity is kindling hope that the moribund IPO market might be poised for a revival.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2023
• Shape is a digital tool engineered to kindle the flames of the creative prowess.
  — Kristen Lynch, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• Results like this have kindled strong interest in smart carts on the part of grocers worldwide.
  — Gil Press, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• Warm and dry conditions are like kindling for wildfires.
  — Cara Korte, CBS News, 7 June 2023
• Without the political pressure kindled by protests, first in George Floyd’s name and then in McClain’s, the case would have been left behind in 2019.
  — Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• But in 2022 the two kindled a rivalry in the regular season and playoffs that felt ripped from the pages of Friday Night Lights, one that cuts to the heart of what makes small-high school football great.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 14 Aug. 2023
• What caused the Canadian wildfires ? Warm and dry conditions are like kindling for wildfires.
  — Cara Korte, CBS News, 27 June 2023
• News of the Idaho hoopla naturally kindled the flames of the ever-present Burger Discourse that extends far beyond the state’s borders.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• Nothing kindles the meme fires quite like mass familiarity, and that the wine was already known and loved made its recent moment in the sun feel like one big inside joke.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 18 Jan. 2024
• These movies create on-screen worlds that kindle positive emotions while offering a few laughs.
  — S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2020
• Sours’ passion kindled Jones’ passion, inspiring her to keep sewing for her own family and to always perfect her work.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2023
• Or kindle a few candles to celebrate rebirth and new possibilities for the new year.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 15 Dec. 2020
• That decision may serve as the kindling other college basketball players need to unionize their teams.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2024
• Movie studios cannot collude to slash benefits to camera crews to kindle a ‘spirit of amateurism’ in Hollywood.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2021
• In 2006, both professional athletes left their respective spouses to kindle a romance of their own.
  — Linda Marx, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023
• But a rivalry once strong enough to kindle the strongest animosities will be reborn the second weekend of September.
  — Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2021
• The fire of friendship kindled, Roemer and Macpherson soon co-created a turquoise and 18-karat gold vermeil necklace that celebrates womanhood, strength, love and healing.
  — Kyle Roderick, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• From this event, Row conducts a fireworks show forward, backward and sideways, kindled by Winter’s upcoming wedding.
  — Hamilton Cain, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
• Vinod Srihari, of the Yale School of Medicine, explained that genetics and environmental factors can come together to kindle the onset of psychosis.
  — David Kortava, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
• Fast ignition instead uses a second laser to kindle the burn once the fuel reaches maximum density.
  — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 15 Feb. 2023
• And as in the United States a year ago, the opposition’s best hope of defeating the demagogic incumbent rests with an old stalwart of the left who is trying to kindle nostalgia for more civil and prosperous times.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
• The goal is to bulwark oil and gas against ambitious climate change policies by claiming the moral high ground — even as those fuels kindle a global crisis that disproportionately harms people who aren’t white.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024