Box, generally pocket-sized, for holding matches.
1 He started up in bed and began to grope for the matchbox .
2 The blue end of a matchbox stuck up out of the saucer.
3 But the wooden matchbox was still the most valued of his possessions.
4 Stiles relit his pipe with a second match from the ivory matchbox .
5 Entering the other, he felt all over his table for the matchbox .
6 Without waking his companions he found a matchbox and lit the cigarette.
7 Her two children, aged nine and eleven, were busily employed in matchbox - making .
8 At last his hand, groping over the table, closed on the matchbox .
9 Who are these people who can pay almost R2million for a matchbox ?
10 Here lives a blind matchbox - maker and his wife with their seven children.
11 I fumbled and dropped the matchbox again from my stiff, gloved fingers.
12 He threw it into the water, and opened his matchbox to take another.
13 Take one of these; and here's a light. She threw a matchbox across.
14 I held up the matchbox , my will surging down my arm.
15 Each sleeve has a matchbox - sized sensor in the hand, forearm and upper arm.
16 Since then I've tried everything from matchbox cars to cigarette packs.
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