How To Use Matchbox In A Sentence
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Sooner or later, you'll see the cable car, which looks like a matchbox toy from the valley floor, inching up the grade.
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Generally, it turns out that what famous women carry in their handbags is pretty much the same as the rest of us—only the matchboxes come from chicer restaurants, the pen is by Montblanc and the lipstick is almost always Chanel.
Finding the Perfect Handbag This Fall
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The Power Dot, from a company called findtheDOT, is a gadget the size and shape of a matchbox: about an inch by an inch by a half-inch.
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The Matchbox 20 lead singer is climbing the charts on his own and he's live with us.
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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.
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This store was selling little weeny teeny digital cameras, about the size of a matchbox.
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I'd never visited this side of the ridgeline until just a couple days ago when I saw the village transform from matchbox town to real as I descended on this road.
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Meanwhile, the devotees, who assembled well in advance at the appointed places, lit smaller oil lamps using candles and matchboxes.
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Back in England, Sam learnt that the original matchbox had been retrieved, 20 years after its loss, by a farmhand who had found it while ploughing a field that very morning.
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The restaurant occupies a matchbox-size space among the storefront shops on Sullivan Street.
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Anyway, I was mooching along Tottenham Court Road at lunchtime, and this store was selling little weeny teeny digital cameras, about the size of a matchbox.
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I had not gone off my habit of collecting matchbooks and matchboxes from places I visited, but sadly, they were not available here.
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Although how they would fit a preview screen on a camera the size of a matchbox, I don't know!
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Matt Lee's gallery of matchboxes from the subcontinent highlights the lovely art that adorns these little bits of ephemera: "The random and disparate juxtapositions of the imagery encapsulate the mix of historic, mythological and contemporary visual culture in India.
Boing Boing
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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.
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You put the insect in a matchbox.
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Her younger brother and sister, Laurent and Lucienne, were also observed by their father and were given equally hazardous objects, including matchboxes and penknives, to manipulate.
The Truth About Grief
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I had not gone off my habit of collecting matchbooks and matchboxes from places I visited, but sadly, they were not available here.
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Matchbox cars, dolls, and action figures all offer the opportunity for your child to learn visual discrimination.
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They were sprawls of monotonous matchbox houses devoid of color.
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Native wind instruments fashioned from tiny straws are sold at a fraction of the cost of matchbox-size ghetto-blasters.
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Even singer Rob Thomas of matchbox twenty - himself no stranger to screaming women - was taken aback.
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The idea to post cameras in crime plagued neighborhoods is a good one, but their conspicuousness is a problem, so Police Superintendent Jody Weis is proposing to add new covert cameras so small they fit inside a matchbox, the Sun-Times reports.
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There was a gold watch, for one thing, with a chain and locket; there was a silver pencil, and a matchbox, and a handful of small change, and finally a cardcase.
The Jungle
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That was a real, heavy metal train carriage, not a matchbox toy.
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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.
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While cartophily is mainly associated with picture postcards, cigarette and trade cards, it is also applied to many other areas such as matchbox labels, stickers/transfers, menus and playing cards.
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The most obvious was the imbalance in the midfield, with two strong-running centres whose joint creative talent could be kept in a matchbox, along with the matches.
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I have some matchbox cars left over.
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Meanwhile, the devotees, who assembled well in advance at the appointed places, lit smaller oil lamps using candles and matchboxes.
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Mattel's Matchbox car collectibles get a boost with the Map & Go fire truck, while its Hot Wheels go from four to two wheels with new die-cast motocross collectibles.
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The blurring of the print upon the key and the printless condition of the other side of it is, I think, accounted for by the fact that the pocket in which it was found contained also a handkerchief, a matchbox, and several other small objects.
The Key
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The most coveted are made of silk and organza - and some muslin saris are woven so finely they can be folded down to fit inside a matchbox.
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It sways in the breeze, and while good-looking, proves to be more of matchbox quality than I had thought.
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Just one peek at cars the size of matchboxes was enough.
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Unfortunately, most of the houses built in 1980s and early 1990s are the same, which were called matchbox houses.
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We therefore amassed about 20 matchboxes and stuffed them with caterpillars, hiding them in nooks and crannies of our homes.
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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.
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It's just like when you were a kid and you made your own tracks for your matchbox cars around the house.
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Adequate stocks of essential commodities such as rice, maida, wheat, kerosene and matchboxes were kept ready for distribution to people in case of any emergency.
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He scrambled through 14 tonnes of waste to find the tiny jewellery case - no bigger than a large matchbox.
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Even singer Rob Thomas of matchbox twenty - himself no stranger to screaming women - was taken aback.
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From the air Darwin looks like a matchbox town that has been crushed by a giant foot.
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They often produce matchboxes or pill bottles with fluff, splinters and other debris that they insist are specimens that they have caught.
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The exhibition is a showcase of miniature artwork, with everything from converted matchboxes to sculptures made from bird bones.
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`Each city district has a blackout timetable,' he explained as he moved into the kitchenette and fumbled for a matchbox.
OUTCAST
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After reuniting with matchbox twenty for 2007's "Exile on Mainstream," Rob Thomas returns to his solo work with his new offering "cradlesong," and the result is a fresh mix of tunes that blends 80's synth-pop with today's current pop sound.
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Back in England, Sam learnt that the original matchbox had been retrieved, 20 years after its loss, by a farmhand who had found it while ploughing a field that very morning.
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The collection includes a horse so small it was originally sold in a matchbox and an 8ft rocking horse large enough to seat three children at once.
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From afar the shanty towns resembled ramshackle collections of matchboxes.
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It turns out that the young woman with the expressionless face of a professional on the catwalk loves cartoons and collecting matchboxes.
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Mine always bought me dolls, even though he knew what I really wanted was those little matchbox cars.
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Why is it that these places seem more concerned about how they display their designer matchboxes than the gumption level of their staff?
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Gently attach to the card, resting the base on a matchbox to raise the cake slightly off the green fondant.
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As a child, I used to keep them in a perforated matchbox under my pillow and listen to them at night.
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The Surrealism of Edward James, born into a world absolutely cluttered with expensive things and yearning to be free of their magnetism (when periodically overwhelmed by stuff that he accumulated, down to old matchboxes, he would simply have it all wrapped in bushels of tissue, packed in trunks and stored in a warehouse), has a blithe humor tinged with disdain that I sensed often in Las Pozas.
Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico
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The matchbox is an inessential prop because Spade uses a peculiar cigarette lighter to light his cigarettes.
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Oddly, one architect likes to keep his matchbox car collection in his cabinet alongside his vintage shaving gear.
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Two computers, about the size of a matchbox, are attached to the side of their parachute to calculate the speed of the descent.
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It was a mini Wall Street bonanza bull market as these baubles, nicked or begged from Mum, exchanged hands many times over in one fifteen-minute break, moving from one cotton wool-lined matchbox to another.
In the Frame
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A small port had been built and colossal barges looking like giant overflowing matchboxes were being towed the short distance down the coast to Korea.
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The most coveted are made of silk and organza - and some muslin saris are woven so finely they can be folded down to fit inside a matchbox.
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'Come, get a fire started,' he commanded, drawing out the precious matchbox with its attendant strips of dry birchbark.
The Wisdom of the Trail
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Aluminium tins, matchboxes and canteen tables were replaced with sophisticated musical instruments.
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It's an example of how those here are keen to preserve a heritage that has also given the world the word "petrol", matchbox toys, and dry-cleaning.
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However while the others played together Johnny played by himself with toy airplanes and matchbox cars.
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Shot glasses and matchboxes (usually with bar names and addresses which are useful for retracing the previous night's steps) are a favourite.
