| I head back to the living room, undo the matchbook, strike a match and carefully light the edges of the paper in the fireplace. |
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| There was a highlighter, a matchbook, a tube of lipstick, a broken pencil stub. |
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| He brought up his other hand and pulled a remaining match from the pack, turning the matchbook over and showing it to her. |
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| The criminal carefully jams the token slot with a matchbook or a gum wrapper and waits for a would-be rider to plunk a token down. |
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| Not knowing how to respond, her teacher gave her a forced smile and reached in one of her drawers for a matchbook. |
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| One way to extend the life of a syringe was to keep sharpening the point of the needle on the rough, striking part of a matchbook. |
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| Around a dozen nodes the size of a matchbook were released by a miniature unmanned aircraft. |
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| Promotional elements included matchbook notepads on the venue's counters that could be used to write a name or phone number. |
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| Collecting includes stamps, coins, medals, matchbook covers and pressed flowers. |
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| Christie went to the bathroom, and I sat there flipping a matchbook over and over in my hand. |
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| As thin as a matchbook and resembling a remote control, it is available only in Japan. |
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| Afterward, by way of congratulations, Skinny Zyama handed Kostya a Russian Riviera matchbook. |
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| We can see the same thing that is reproduced on billboard advertisements reduced to the size of a matchbook. |
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| I never knew anybody, so contact sports were out and the cafeteria was out, so I would go down these back stairs, put a matchbook in the door, and have lunch outside. |
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| He also confiscates one of the two boxes of matches I have, telling me that only one box is allowed, although later I find a matchbook lost in the folds of my purse. |
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| On foot, nothing escapes my attention: a potato-chip bag stuffed into the hollow of a tree, an elderly mitten caught in the embrace of a blackberry bush, a mud-coated matchbook at the bottom of a ditch. |
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| In February 1995, an informant, seeing an RFJ matchbook and motivated by the reward, went to the U. S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan and provided information leading to Yousef's whereabouts. |
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| We would sharpen it on a matchbook cover to keep it sharpened. |
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