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Meanings of matches in English
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Examples for "match"
Examples for "match"
1
We've come a long way obviously since the Armagh match last year.
2
What he said Speaking after the match de Villiers said: Extremely happy.
3
However, they said they did get good striations for a future match.
4
I have heard people say this is the 'return match', he said.
5
It was great match, and I think good start of this week.
1
A far-off form, tall, windswept, framed by a forest of matchstick trees.
2
He breaks his matchstick in half and flips it onto the table.
3
Cut both apples into matchstick-sized strips and place in a large bowl.
4
It looks like a matchstick bridge, thin and spindly above the trees.
5
He made a matchstick house out of the winnings, with too much concentration.
1
He relit the lamp with a sulfur match and climbed back out of bed.
2
The first boy took a sulfur match, stuck it between his protruding front teeth, and lit it.
3
There was not, for example, a single sulfur match on the whole earth except those in the runaway skyscraper.
4
Jonas made a second cigarette, drew a sulfur match from the sack, and popped it alight with his thumbnail.
5
From the other he brought out three lady-finger firecrackers, a big-banger, and a few sulfur matches.
1
The narrator paused, and relighted his pipe with a foul-smelling sulphur match.
2
Only it was a bigger smell than any sulphur match could make.
3
He was only scared with that sulphur match when he ran away.
4
While the sulphur match burnt blue, Juanita looked indifferently at the printed paper.
5
The bluish flame of a sulphur match sputtered, then grew bright.
1
Lighting it with a common safety match, he puffed away ecstatically.
2
But all the same, that safety match is tormenting me frightfully.
3
The so-called safety match of the present time was invented in the year 1855.
4
The safety match was invented shortly after the Civil War.
5
A hand reached into the pocket of the leather jacket, withdrew a safety match.
Usage of matches in English
1
The company said the new system matches ads to relevant programming segments.
2
She's had some really good, strong matches in the past few months.
3
He played matches without training and that's not easy, the Italian said.
4
Previous examples of matches being replayed go back a number of years.
5
No decision has yet been made on future Sunwolves matches in Asia.
6
Saturday's Leinster Senior League matches have left the relegation issue wide open.
7
He's been a good challenge for us the first two Test matches.
8
The closing sequence of matches certainly present an intriguing list of possibilities.
9
The feature finds possible matches to search terms as the user types.
10
Today could exceed Sunday, which saw 11 goals in only three matches.
11
City are four points off the top with five league matches left.
12
This had been largely expected after the evidence of recent challenge matches.
13
The one policy area where BES Express matches BES is application control.
14
Ireland selector Paddy Clarke has been suspended for five International Rules matches.
15
We have ideas, we have solutions to problems, and plans for matches.
16
I set it on fire from the walls; no need for matches.
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South Africa
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Ireland
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New Zealand
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