Sentence examples for be kindled from inspiring English sources
verb
To start (a fire) or light (a torch, a match, coals, etc.).
"It's been my hope that things between us would be kindled, but I think that's a real long shot".
Nostalgia for the city's caravansaries will be kindled by Stanley Turkel's "Hotel Mavens: Lucius M. Boomer, George C. Boldt and Oscar of the Waldorf" (AuthorHouse).
A near-perfect marriage of object and subject, the printed paper book has a warmth, weight and romance that — sorry, Amazon — cannot be kindled on a screen.
It took a casual mention of a Byzantine empress in a book about Charlemagne that he read a few years ago for Mr. Brownworth's curiosity to be kindled.
If you whore after other gods, the Bible tells us, "the Lord's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit" (Deuteronomy 11).
If the bulb for Exchanging-Smiles-With-Mother doesn't light up, then Empathy won't be kindled farther along the strand, or Playfulness, or Theory of Mind (the insight that other people have different thoughts from yours).
Curiosities were kindled; suspicions raised.
Lewis's interest in genetics was kindled in high school.
New friendships and even loves are kindled, if necessarily briefly.
Luther's religious faith is kindled by another miracle.
A similar phenomenon is seen in female rats that are kindled from the amygdala.
