This place is a tinderbox just ready to go up.

They would have to be lit, and I was the only one with a tinderbox.

This tinderbox situation has been around for well over twenty years.

Officials and residents knew that the forest was a tinderbox.

The result is a giant tinderbox of a forest in America.

Regional and party differences had made a tinderbox of American politics.

Now, its hill is a tinderbox looming over the city.

I found the tinderbox on the end of the mantel.

What's our policy on the movement of terror weapons into a tinderbox?

Conrad took the tinderbox and looked down at the three dogs.

In letters to the child welfare agency over the years, she has called it a tinderbox.

Maybe that's what is needed to defuse the tinderbox we call the world.

There was a tinderbox too, and I took that gratefully.

He tried to close the tinderbox, but the heat had distorted the metal.

He strikes the tinderbox to light the room, and one of the dogs appears before him.

This quarter's a tinderbox and it's right next door to the palace.

And in a tinderbox like the escape pod, that was the last thing they needed.

The house that embraces nature here must also defend itself from her tinderbox.

The presence of the tinderbox could mean nothing else.

A result is large parcels of dead trees that amount to a tinderbox.

With shaking hands he put up the candles, drew out his tinderbox to light them.

A tinderbox is a container with the essential tools to make a fire.

"Then probably our friend with the tinderbox didn't know it, either.

He took the lamp and tinderbox from her hands.

Tinderbox is described as "a detective tool for software development".