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How to use matchbox in a sentence

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Naturally I thought that he'd have a little box like a snuff box or a matchbox and he'd blow them away as we'd usually seen it done.
Edible varieties of beans and peas include Moreton Bay chestnuts and matchbox bean.
The matchbox is an inessential prop because Spade uses a peculiar cigarette lighter to light his cigarettes.
Two computers, about the size of a matchbox, are attached to the side of their parachute to calculate the speed of the descent.
However while the others played together Johnny played by himself with toy airplanes and matchbox cars.
And I like to watch the tiny matchbox cars moving down the road and wonder whether the drivers know they're being watched from above.
It sways in the breeze, and while good-looking, proves to be more of matchbox quality than I had thought.
From the air Darwin looks like a matchbox town that has been crushed by a giant foot.
Oddly, one architect likes to keep his matchbox car collection in his cabinet alongside his vintage shaving gear.
Mine always bought me dolls, even though he knew what I really wanted was those little matchbox cars.
Sooner or later, you'll see the cable car, which looks like a matchbox toy from the valley floor, inching up the grade.
Unfortunately, most of the houses built in 1980s and early 1990s are the same, which were called matchbox houses.
Although how they would fit a preview screen on a camera the size of a matchbox, I don't know!
It's just like when you were a kid and you made your own tracks for your matchbox cars around the house.
This store was selling little weeny teeny digital cameras, about the size of a matchbox.
There's a large number of German iron toy cars from the 1970s and a full set of English matchbox cars, which are now worth thousands of NT dollars each.
Leaving their matchbox, they line the film in circular, concentric movements.
More and more of a crowd began to enter the room, stuffing the whole area and turning it into a claustrophobic matchbox as the final countdown began.
Together with a suitably sized matchbox to serve as the fourth wall, this created a parallelepiped volume which was filled with stacks of pennies.
My husband crouched under the table, propping a playing card on a matchbox.
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Examples from Classical Literature
My hands trembled so much that twice I missed the rough paper of the matchbox.
Some of the Nativities are from overseas and include a tiny nativity in a matchbox made in Peru.
But Davy had brought out his matchbox, and was striking a light.
Without waking his companions he found a matchbox and lit the cigarette.
Then he fumbled about in the darkness for a lamp and matchbox.
He extended his hand to put back the matchbox in its corner of the shelf.
Entering the other, he felt all over his table for the matchbox.
She bent forward, gripped a matchbox, and lit the cigarette for him.
The gentleman growled again and lit his cigar from his own matchbox.
Contemporary CD moneymakers include Jewel, Phil Collins, Tori Amos, Kid Rock, Sean Paul, Lil' Kim, and Matchbox Twenty.
Other favourites include Barbie and Ken dolls, Matchbox cars, Scalextric, train sets, rag dolls and marbles.
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