tinder-like

What can be done now to stop what seems to be an almost tinder-like situation from exploding?

CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2002 2002

If instead of tinder-like weeds, we have so much coffee that we will not bother to pick the coffee beans growing there.

CASTRO DELIVERS SPEECH AT GUANE CEREMONY 1967

The tinder-like material, with which these first buildings were constructed, together with the open central fires, made them a prey to flames in January, 1608, which shortly were out of control.

Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Annie Lash Jester

They could not be removed, and a single spark from the frail and tinder-like materials might send the whole in an instant to the skies.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

The flames were spreading in the dry, tinder-like grass, and for a moment Dave was worried.

Cowboy Dave Frank V. Webster

Then, whether the building was older and more tinder-like than was supposed, or whether

The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast Victor [pseud.] Appleton

Cotton-wood, rooted in naked sand beside a water-course, and shielded from prairie-fires by the high, precipitous bank; for, scanty as is the herbage of the desert, the fierce winds which sweep over it will yet, especially in late spring or early summer, drive a fire (which has obtained a start in some fairly grassed vale or nook) through its dead, tinder-like remains.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

The dry tinder-like shingles, rotted by the autumn and winter rains and scorched by the searing spring and summer sun for two generations, blazed like coals in a forge.

Tobacco Road Caldwell, Erskine, 1903- 1934

Torn by the wind, stems of flaming grass were showered on the house, some dying as they burned out, others leaving a glowing spark imbedded in the dry tinder-like shingles that had covered the house for fifty years or more.

Tobacco Road Caldwell, Erskine, 1903- 1934

I am known to be a humorous patrician, and one that loves a cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in’t; said to be something imperfect in favouring the first complaint; hasty and tinder-like upon too trivial motion; one that converses more with the buttock of the night than with the forehead of the morning.

Act II. Scene I. Coriolanus 1914