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• My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.
• many a warlike match
• A solemn match was made; he lost the prize.
• He knew he had met his match.
• Government [...] makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects.
• She [...] was looked upon as the richest match of the West.
• It were no match, your nail against his horn.
• The carpet and curtains are a match.
• Thy hand upon that match.
• Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making.
• Their interests didn't match, so it took a long time to agree what to do together.
• These two copies are supposed to be identical, but they don't match.
• His interests didn't match her interests.
• There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
• Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.
• They found out about his color-blindness when he couldn't match socks properly.
• Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
• She matched him at every turn: anything he could do, she could do as well or better.
• [...]Adam's sons are my brethren; and truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
• A senator of Rome survived, / Would not have matched his daughter with a king.
• to match boards
• He struck a match and lit his cigarette.
• When is the next football match?
• Do you have a match to light my cigarette?
• I’m looking for a match for this lone sock.
• Considering your search criteria, these are your matches.
• But it would be hard to argue that the UK even comes close to matching the US in the sheer visible exuberance of Halloween.
• 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 - Jane Austen)