Adjective

(en adjective)

Resembling or characteristic of tinder.

*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 4, author=Adam Nossiter, title=Drought Saps the Southeast, and Its Farmers, work=New York Times citation

, passage=In the browning corn fields here, the light breeze makes a tindery noise as it rustles the dry stalks. }}

Adjective

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covered in cinders

* {{quote-news, year=1993, date=November 19, author=Lee Sandlin, title=The American Scheme, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=A new interstate blasted like an infinite airstrip straight through the hills toward the horizon; it had been done so brutally that we kept seeing on either side of the freeway corridor the stump-ends of the old cindery roads, and boarded-up tourist traps dangling precariously on the sheared hillsides. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Charles Darwin, title=A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Even the form of a crater can but rarely be discovered on the summits of the many red cindery hills; yet the more recent streams can be distinguished on the coast, forming lines of cliffs of less height, but stretching out in advance of those belonging to an older series: the height of the cliffs thus affording a rude measure of the age of the streams. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1884, author=John Addington Symonds, title=New Italian sketches, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The whole of this coast has been spoiled by the recent upheaval of Monte Nuovo with its lava floods and cindery deluges. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1880, author=Charles Dickens, title=The Letters of Charles Dickens, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=There were men there who made such speeches and expressed such sentiments as any moderately intelligent dustman would have blushed through his cindery bloom to have thought of. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1873, author=Various, title=Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 28. July, 1873., chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=All at once a shriek or yell of "Hard aport!" and a great iron outward-bound steamer from Hong-Kong bursts into the unwieldy Chinaman, goes crunching through her like ripping pasteboard; tears her open; snarls through steamy nostrils and cindery fiery mouth, and growls over her wreck. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1866, author=Herman Melville, title=Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The wagon mired and cannon dragged Have trenched their scar; the plain Tramped like the cindery beach of the damned-- A site for the city of Cain. }}