How to Use kindling in a Sentence

kindling

noun

• The fires might be put out for a time, but the kindling would remain.
  — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 1 June 2020
• Put it beneath some kindling, and light the whole thing.
  — Nick Meyers, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2015
• Rabbi Shneur Itzinger will lead the kindling of the 9-foot-tall menorah on the first night of Hanukkah.
  — Matt Leavitt, cleveland, 12 Dec. 2022
• All the kindling was already stacked, the pandemic was just the spark that lit the fire.
  — Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 18 Jan. 2022
• The more immunizations go around, the less kindling there is for the virus to burn.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2021
• All that parched brush worked like kindling and soon the endless pines began to be set ablaze.
  — Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2023
• On top, make a small tepee-style fire of tinder and kindling.
  — Emily Reed, Outside Online, 14 Apr. 2019
• The building also has hardwood floors, adding to the kindling.
  — miamiherald, 13 Sep. 2017
• The kindling was laid by the drought that has been ravaging eastern Australia for two years.
  — The Economist, 16 Nov. 2019
• What’s happening in this early stage of Alzheimer’s can be likened to the kindling that starts a house fire.
  — Elie Dolgin, Newsweek, 16 Feb. 2017
• Hold the kindling in place using a scrap of wood with a roofing nail driven through its end.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 16 Nov. 2018
• Trying to get a spark from a damp match is a lot harder than holding a flame to dry kindling.
  — Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2020
• Most of these tools are at home chopping down trees and splitting the wood into kindling.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 27 Jan. 2020
• My daughter scatters my kindling and my son manages to hit himself in the eye with a stick.
  — Reid Doughten, Longreads, 22 Sep. 2017
• This fireplace grate comes with nine bars, providing a ton of area to rest your kindling.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 3 May 2021
• Gather dry tinder, such as birchbark, and a large amount of dry twigs for kindling.
  — Jim Baird, Field & Stream, 28 June 2023
• Each alone could have ignited the kindling that has blazed into an all-out war.
  — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 19 May 2021
• The news spread like fire on dry kindling, lighting a nationwide craze.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2022
• Attendees can write down a wish and add it to the kindling before the bonfire is set ablaze, and purchase s’mores kits for a sticky snack.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2021
• Cover the flat surface with a thick layer of tinder and kindling.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2017
• The resourceful men threw their own shawls onto her for kindling.
  — Namwali Serpell, Harper's Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020
• But the short of it was that the kindling and tinderboxes were seen as perfect green mulch for flora and fauna.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 15 Sep. 2020
• As smoke billows through their backyard, father and son wave two-foot taro leaves over a three-foot hole filled with kindling and wood to light it on fire.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 July 2022
• Keep in mind that some of the smaller fire pits are not large enough for standard wood logs; many of these require wood pellets or small kindling.
  — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2022
• The polished blade skated through the baton work, neatly splitting the kindling.
  — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 20 Feb. 2020
• Inside her friend’s house, Manes hid in a shower as Irma flung boats through the air, ripped roofs from buildings and made kindling of the island’s trees.
  — Matthew Ormseth, courant.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• This graceful blade, with a classic Scandi grind edge and black traction coating, made quick work of the kindling.
  — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 20 Feb. 2020
• Firewood needs to be chopped, tent stakes need to be pounded into the ground, and small branches need to be turned into kindling and fuel for the fire.
  — Outdoor Life, 23 Feb. 2021
• In Richard Roper’s capable hands, the search becomes so much more – a kindling of confidence, a step down new paths.
  — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Feb. 2024
• The smaller trees, competing for resources and acting as kindling for future fires, will be removed.
  — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024