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How to use kindling in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, adjective

Kindling means small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire. Example: “Go and collect some kindling.”

Examples of kindling by meaning

nounSmall pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.

  • Go and collect some kindling.

More sentences with kindling

  • But now, in late winter, it feels like I'm standing under a pile of kindling.2012, Four Leaf Studios, “Prologue”, in Katawa Shoujo. From the entry deciduous
  • Hanna added the last bit of kindling to the lowsome fire.2011, Janet Lee Carey, The Beast of Noor. From the entry lowsome
  • Kindling wood logs were provided and those had to be chopped into sticks.1984, York Memories: Nine First-Hand Accounts of Life in York 1900-1939, York: York Oral History Project, →OCLC, page 30. From the entry stickshed
  • I built up the kindling in various stages in the base of the stove as I prepared to make my need-fire.1998, Darien Hamilton, “Kindling in the Yuletide”, in Heathen Journal, volume 2, number 3. From the entry need-fire
  • He was a natural-born unseater of kings, and a throne to him, as a Territorian, was useful only as kindling.1994, Greg Matthews, The Wisdom of Stones, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 331. From the entry unseater
  • Naegling blunted and this time broke into kindling.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 46. From the entry foreordain
  • “Be sure you have plenty of kindling before you begin.1919, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 192, page 93, column 4. From the entry asbestos
  • A majority focus on teaching the various techniques for improving the quality of one's life and greater effectiveness by kindling the divine spark within.2005, Peter Clarke, Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements, Routledge, →ISBN, page 445. From the entry self religion
  • The farmers up here will have a lot of cleaning to do along the fencelines before they bale hay next June or they will be baling kindling.2007 January 1, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Edges and Order”, in New York Times. From the entry fenceline
  • A wrinkled old woman, pulling a little wagon full of kindling, turned to smile toothlessly up at him a at the sound of his artless tenor.1930, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace, Part III, Chapter II, page 275. From the entry toothlessly

Meaning of kindling

  1. noun Small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.
  2. noun The act by which something is kindled.
  3. adjective Illuminated, lit.

Full definition of kindling

Questions about kindling in a sentence

How do you use kindling in a sentence?
Kindling is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Go and collect some kindling.”
What is a short sentence with kindling?
“Go and collect some kindling.”
What does kindling mean?
Kindling means small pieces of wood and twigs used to start a fire.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kindling (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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