Synonyms for kindling
ˈkɪnd lɪŋkin·dling

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1. kindling, tinder, touchwood, spunk, punknoun

   material for starting a fire

   Synonyms:
   hoodlum, firing, goon, lighting, tinder, hood, mettle, ignition, spunk, strong-armer, heart, toughie, tough, punk rock, inflammation, punk, thug, punk rocker, nerve, touchwood

2. ignition, firing, lighting, kindling, inflammationnoun

   the act of setting something on fire

   Synonyms:
   dismissal, fervor, firing, light, liberation, tinder, redness, firing off, dismission, touchwood, sack, ignition, discharge, release, excitement, spunk, sacking, excitation, ignition system, lighting, inflammation, rubor, punk, inflaming, fervour, fire

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1. kindlingnoun

   Synonyms:
   enkindling, incitement, accension

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1. List of paraphrases for "kindling":

   fuelling, excitation

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How to use kindling in a sentence?

1. Andrew Feltus:

   The dry kindling for sustained inflation is probably here, banks have a lot of ammo to lend money. And wages are accelerating because the labor market is tight. This looks more than transitory.

2. Eugene B. Sledge:

   You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you’ll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.

3. Will Reinert:

   After years of vehement denial, Governor Lujan Grisham's now revealed sexual harassment settlement certainly raises questions of why Michelle Lujan Grisham tried to discredit Michelle Lujan Grisham alleged victim, where there is smoke there is usually fire, and Michelle Lujan Grisham just wrote a check for $ 62,500 worth of kindling.

4. Alec Baldwin:

   It's not a witch hunt because a witch hunt indicates that there is very little truth, if none at all, and there is a lot of truth here, but what worries me is that this is a fire that needs constant kindling.

5. Tiffany Davila:

   Due to the lack of precipitation that we have had, it’s basically kindling, So, when you take the drought-stricken fuel coupled with the extreme heat, the wind that we’ve had this year and then — in some places, you know, where a fire may start — the topography, the terrain: all of that can go into how active a fire is.