Sentence examples for boxes of matches from inspiring English sources

He was holding a few boxes of matches in his trembly fingers and looked utterly wretched.

They are really like boxes of matches, aren't they?" This may be just what the developer is hoping for: attention.

"We have no guns – we have only stones, boxes of matches and petrol," she told a township crowd.

"Together, hand in hand, with our boxes of matches and our necklaces we shall liberate this country".

As well as the vinyl there was a goblet, handkerchief, menu cards, boxes of matches – even a pen.

This is a little like saying, when your kitchen is on fire, that it's O.K. because, in a cupboard above the stove, you keep fifty boxes of matches.

Other domains conserved among groups or subgroups of sequences are shown as aligned boxes of matching colors.

A box of matches is up 50 percent.

Carry a box of matches.

Now I can't even buy a box of matches".

In the Diet she produced a box of matches.