"match" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He advanced and, looking at the wax match, said: "Where does the magic fire of which you speak live, Stranger?"
- Lighting a wax match on his thigh, he started at last to stoke up, puffing away at the pipe until the blue tobacco smoke swirled about his head.
- The grazier threw him back upon the bed, lit a wax match from the tin box held in his belt, and held the little finger of the left hand in the flame.
- He struck a wax match to light his pipe.
- It is still used in many tropical and subtropical countries in the production of wax match sticks.
- I got out my box of wax matches, and they struck as merrily, there, in that awful place, as they could have done in a London drawing-room.
- Then I lit them with one of our wax matches.
- The first thing that Redgrave did when they stepped out on to the sandy surface of the plain was to stoop down and strike a wax match.
- He pulled from his pocket a tin box of wax matches of a style that was strange to me, and cracked one expertly with his thumbnail without burning himself.
- Other interests during this period included puzzles, toys (he invented a few new ones), and drawings of figures made from wax matches.
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