With that sun overhead, we found dry tinder quickly.

Working methodically, she shaved some dry tinder, set the fire, and struck a match.

These things come across borders like sparks from a forest fire falling on dry tinder.

It had been the work of moments only to strike fire into dry tinder with his flint and steel.

The border of Gwynedd is dry tinder waiting for a spark.

She fell to her hands and knees as her hair went up like dry tinder.

But at this time of year the bracken and undergrowth is tinder dry.

He says that at this time of year the undergrowth is tinder dry.

Meanwhile, across the Amazon basin, disease and death were spreading like fire through dry tinder.

They would be dry tinder for the flame of class warfare.