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322 example sentences for MATCH, such as:

1. The football match is over.
2. A boy is not a match for a man.
3. Yes, indeed, a very pretty match.
4. He stubbed his match on the plate.
5. The score was close in the final match.

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 Meanings and Examples of MATCH
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match
 n.  a game or sports event where teams compete
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He struck a match on his boot and held it up against the wall.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2  'We'll soon have a light, I said, striking a match and putting it to a wax candle which I had brought with me.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
3  She had met him once only, at a cricket match.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
4  We might have made a match of it, Sir Spaniel, had fortune favoured.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
5  I'm a match for any of 'em--the chits you dally with, and bid me meet you at the Orange Tree when you're drowsing the night off spent in their arms.'
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
6  He stubbed his match on the plate.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 13
7  I am beset here with neighbours that match your infidels, Sir Knight, in Holy Land.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  Both displayed great feats of gallantry, nor did either Bois-Guilbert or the Disinherited Knight find in the ranks opposed to them a champion who could be termed their unquestioned match.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  There is more in it than thou dost guess, Conrade; thy simplicity is no match for this deep abyss of wickedness.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
10  It is indeed," said the Templar; "for, proud as thou art, thou hast in me found thy match.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
11  All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
12  Yes, indeed, a very pretty match.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  She would learn to match him in his indifference.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
14  And yet it was a most desirable match for Janet at the time.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  Poor Janet has been sadly taken in, and yet there was nothing improper on her side: she did not run into the match inconsiderately; there was no want of foresight.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
Example Sentence: (112 in 8 pages)
16  A match will set fire to a large building.
17  He needs to win this game to stay in the match.
18  He took all her letters into the yard and put a match to them.
19  A boy is not a match for a man.
20  Specks of paint found at the scene were found to match the accused's car.
21  The football match is over.
22  The score was close in the final match.
23  The main topic of conversation was the big football match.
24  A momentary lapse in the final set cost her the match.
25  The players have a couple of minutes to knock up before the match starts.
26  Few cities in Europe can match the cultural richness of Berlin.
27  The company was unable to match his current salary.
28  Despite a bright start, Liverpool lost the match.
29  Each round of the boxing match lasts three minutes.
30  Griswold had bulked up for this match and won easily.