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matchstick

[ UK /mˈæt‍ʃstɪk/ ]
NOUN
  1. a short thin stick of wood used in making matches

How To Use matchstick In A Sentence

  • In some French supermarkets, they sell a kit for making tarte flambée, including seasoned cream, packets of skinny bacon batons (matchsticks), and pre-made extra-thin bases. In which I am a (lazy) culinary genius « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
  • The boy became yellow as a guinea and thin as a matchstick after three years of miserable life.
  • Cut the zucchini in matchsticks using a mandoline or your expert knife skills.
  • Peel the carrots and shred them into matchstick pieces and mix them with the beanshoots.
  • The absence of the usual Lowry matchstick people puroposely going about their business says a lot really as the North once again awaits its fate as the conservative misrule abyss slowly but surely heads its way as it did so in all those wasted tory years of the eighties and nineties where only now the rebuilding of those communites and towns has recently been completed. Cartoon: Steve Bell on the Oldham East and Saddleworth byelection
  • Its significance grows as the tree is broken up into smaller components, such as paper or matchsticks.
  • One of my team-mates was sent off for uttering the word 'matchsticks' to the referee. Which football stadium is closest to a major road?
  • Already a rotund figure, she was a quaint sight with her legs sticking out of her bulky costume like matchsticks. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
  • Pinch off a pea - to chickpea-sized piece of dough, and roll it between your palms to form a fat matchstick.
  • So far, the Bank of England's attempts to slow the consumer boom here look to have been as feeble as placing matchsticks in the path of an oncoming train.
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