Sentence examples for a tinderbox from inspiring English sources

The American West is a tinderbox right now".

Nine years later the Caucasus still feels like a tinderbox.

The house had become a "tinderbox," Helen said.

The city and its surroundings are a tinderbox.

"The waters around here are a tinderbox," he said.

Now, he said, "a tinderbox has been created".

Officials and residents knew that the forest was a tinderbox.

Like a match to a tinderbox, the reaction was instantaneous.

Her Leeds West constituency, she said, was "like a tinderbox".

What I thought was a tinderbox is actually a box of bullets.

Nimr and Roy are two little people playing with matches in a tinderbox.