kindling - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • get: Chopping wood with ice-axes and trying to get kindling lit.
  • make: An ax may b e kept near a chopping block to make kindling.
  • use: The stove is lit quickly and easily using dry kindling and newspaper.
  • add: After the tinder is burning well, add small kindling.
  • provide: Lewyn for example was to provide stone and lime whereas Lord Scrope was to provide kindling and wood for scaffolding.

Adjective modifier

  • dry: Be sure to include plenty of dry kindling, you will need it.
  • good: Softwoods tend to be easy to light and to burn quickly ( making them very good kindling ).
  • amygdaloid: Effect of amygdaloid kindling on the content and release of amino acids from the amygdaloid complex: in vivo and in vitro studies.
  • little: Euphoric mood broken, I rummage through my pack for the little kindling we could afford to carry.

Modifies a noun

  • eye: What tho perverted sight can quick descry The mote that blurs a brother's kindling eye?

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