| Cottage country is a tinderbox waiting for an spark to set off the explosion. |
| The city decided to cancel the Canada Day fireworks for the first time in history due to tinderbox conditions in city ravines and woodlots. |
| Even so, an ongoing drought and millions of acres of dead, bark beetle infected trees have turned much of the west into a potential tinderbox. |
| The Yukon was also a tinderbox with dry conditions and a record warm May to August, tying 1989 as the warmest such period on the books. |
| She closed the tinderbox, snuffing the flames, then settled back down where she was lying before. |
| Everyone knew the stand was a bit of a tinderbox, but none actually thought it would go up. |
