(n.) Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen.
Example Sentences:
(1) You know it’s just full of people having excellent Tinder dates.
(2) From then on she became best known for the occasional declamatory remark: "America is founded on genocide"; "the quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth"; and "the white race is the cancer of history" are just three sparky sentences she threw into the tinder box of an America at war with the world and itself in the mid-60s.
(3) Mailbox What we say: Mailbox is one of the better ways to attain the fabled Inbox Zero – or at least try to – by swiping unwanted emails aside like they’re unwanted matches in Tinder.
(4) On a Saturday in January, according to Palmer and court documents, she and a friend went to Fort Bragg to connect with men they met on Tinder Social .
(5) We are supposed to have them by our early 30s at the latest – and not with some nobody we met on Tinder, but with a long-term partner who’ll push a buggy occasionally.
(6) Few guessed, though, that this tinder in the box was lit at least as much by the long arm of the law as the invisible hand of the market.
(7) But part of the reason people stop messaging is surely because you were only ever a wrong thumb swipe away from be swooshed into the "no" pile, forgotten forever before they are presented with infinite more options (has anyone ever run out of possibilities on Tinder?).
(8) The bonus of this tactic is that you’ll never be able to use Tinder again.
(9) It's an app you can download at the click of an iPhone and play at the bus stop, one that uses your smartphone's GPS to track down other Tindering singles in your area.
(10) Tinder announced the move on its blog : “Now when notable public figures, celebrities and athletes appear in your recommendations, you’ll know it’s for real.” Verified profiles for celebrities have long been in development, and were first mooted back in March 2014 , when Tinder’s chief executive, Sean Rad, said: “This will allow celebrities to enter Tinder in a different way.” The app’s chief marketing officer, Justin Mateen, added : “Tinder gives them [celebrities] the control to filter through the noise and communicate with people they want to know.” lily (@lilyallen) Just discovered tinder.
(11) We may be sexting, Tindering and OK Cupid-ing until our iPhones burn our palms, but when it comes to physical consummation, for many of us, sex has gone the same way as whist drives and tea dances.
(12) But even I've noticed something horrible has happened to romance lately, and I'm placing the blame on Tinder .
(13) People who use Tinder understand that, although some people who don’t might be more hesitant to sign up.
(14) It feels uncomfortably shallow at first but, as one of my fellow Tindering friends points out, "You'd just be doing it in your head at the pub anyway."
(15) But there are heartening stories from around the world of people teaming up to go Pokémon hunting and of people helping each other find elusive Pokémon – and the app is now officially more popular than Tinder , which suggests Pokemon Go might start bringing people together in very special ways indeed.
(16) I don't want people to know I sit on my bedroom floor on a Friday night and order two pizzas while watching Nothing To Declare and scrolling through Tinder.
(17) So as soon as you make one wrong move, write one badly worded message, or they simply can't be arsed, you're mentally swiped to the side – not as satisfying as the initial, physical Tinder swipe, but just as effective.
(18) A heat wave and tinder-dry brush had created a dynamic, dangerous situation, California fire captain Mike Mohler told local television reporters.
(19) Or the dreamy sex expert inspired by the time Demetriou swiped right on Tinder.
(20) In a nation with rampant inequality, endemic segregation and massive poverty guns are the spark on a huge pile of dry tinder.
Torch
Definition:
(n.) A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame.
(n.) A flashlight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Demolition of a steel railway bridge was carried out by nine workers using flame-torch cutting.
(2) Some of the TORCH tests are not accurate and should be avoided.
(3) This study compared soldering by a conventional torch procedure with an infrared soldering technique.
(4) In this review, the diagnostic problems encountered in the evaluation of a suspected perinatal infection have been discussed, as have the complexities of the evaluation process for the original four TORCH agents, as well as for three additional agents.
(5) What his death may mark, in fact, is the passing of the al-Qaida torch from one generation of militants to another.
(6) These skin lesions are not specific of leukemia and other diagnoses should be considered including histiocytosis, neuroblastoma, and skin erythropoiesis (in Torch syndrome, hemolytic disease of the newborn, hereditary spherocytosis, and twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome).
(7) As rioters continued to torch vehicles and stone police lines several officers were injured by projectiles.
(8) Google celebrates the Mayan calendar in today's doodle Updated at 1.10pm GMT 9.46am GMT How to destroy the Earth In part two of our apocalypse video series, I demonstrate how the world could end using a variety of household props, including a Christmas pudding, a blow torch, some pebbles from my garden and a miniature snooker table.
(9) But even as soldiers were able to impose order there after several days of anarchy that saw armed Buddhists torch the city's Muslim quarters, unrest was reported in two other towns to the south.
(10) The importance of seroprevalence of the TORCH group of agents and syphilis on perinatal morbidity and mortality in Jamaican women is discussed, and appropriate recommendations for prevention and control of congenital infections in Jamaica are suggested.
(11) The experiment must equally succeed as a torch showing the way forward not only for an enlarging European Community, but also to the ever increasing interest in global harmonization of drug regulation.
(12) She took part in the Olympic torch relay and though she never met Mao, "Chairman Hu" – as she calls the Chinese president – visited her recently.
(13) But later protesters pulled down security cameras, smashed bus stops and torched cars.
(14) A few even said that Sunday’s looting and torching of a QuikTrip gas station near the scene of Brown’s killing should be interpreted as an attack on all outsider-owned businesses, which would continue.
(15) Stun gun torch Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Zap Light sends one million volts between six metal prongs at the front of its torch.
(16) In this study about melting and torchs employed in solder in fixed prosthodontics, it's analysed the accurate melting, adequate quantity, as well as protection of adjacent tissues with an accurate anti-melting.
(17) In the evenings the men's bodies were covered in toxic mercury deposits, left by the process of mining and washing the gold; they burned them off with a blow torch.
(18) Do you wish you could change the elements in the Control Center (which you reach by swiping up from the bottom) - so for example it would contain your favourite apps, not just the clock, torch, calculator and camera?
(19) The torch began its day in Greenwich Park, where the equestrian events will take place, and progressed through the east London neighbourhoods that evangelists of the London Olympics believe will be regenerated by the £9.3bn in public money poured into the area It ended the day in Waltham Forest in the hands of Fabrice Muamba, the Bolton Wanderers footballer who suffered a heart attack on the pitch at White Hart Lane in March and was raised in the area.
(20) They will take with them more than 11 tonnes of kit, including torches, axes, rope, search cameras, stretchers and tents.