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Meanings of matchbox in English

Russian
спички
Spanish
caja de fósforos
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Box, generally pocket-sized, for holding matches.

спички
Usage of matchbox in English
1
He started up in bed and began to grope for the matchbox.
Kafir Stories: Seven Short Stories
2
The blue end of a matchbox stuck up out of the saucer.
Mary Olivier: a Life
3
But the wooden matchbox was still the most valued of his possessions.
A Charmed Life
4
Stiles relit his pipe with a second match from the ivory matchbox.
Speaks the Nightbird
5
Entering the other, he felt all over his table for the matchbox.
Under Western Eyes
6
Without waking his companions he found a matchbox and lit the cigarette.
A Spirit in Prison
7
Her two children, aged nine and eleven, were busily employed in matchbox-making.
God's Answers / A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the ...
8
At last his hand, groping over the table, closed on the matchbox.
Three Soldiers
9
Who are these people who can pay almost R2million for a matchbox?
The South African
10
Here lives a blind matchbox-maker and his wife with their seven children.
London's Underworld
11
I fumbled and dropped the matchbox again from my stiff, gloved fingers.
Dead beat
12
He threw it into the water, and opened his matchbox to take another.
The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
13
Take one of these; and here's a light. She threw a matchbox across.
The Woodlanders
14
I held up the matchbox, my will surging down my arm.
White night
15
Each sleeve has a matchbox-sized sensor in the hand, forearm and upper arm.
Wired
16
Since then I've tried everything from matchbox cars to cigarette packs.
Self's punishment
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