Sentence examples for drop a match from inspiring English sources

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"Don't drop a match".

"Did anyone see the aliens drop a match or a cigarette?

Rosenthal and Witt did not drop a match, winning six straight to earn the victory.

If we drop a match on a forest floor, we cannot predict whether the result will be a conflagration or a campfire just by knowing a lot about matches.

Now seven more will go down in as many matches, leaving only one standing as the champion after the final in Mumbai on April 2. Before, teams could afford to drop a match, but now there is no margin for error.

But it does mean that calling one thing we do natural and something else unnatural is to take the English language, jump all over it, drive a stake through its heart, cover it in butane, drop a match on it and laugh at the guttering flames.

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One of the teenagers squirted the gasoline into the coin slot; another dropped a match.

Then one night somebody popped open the postbox, poured in some petrol, and dropped a match".

As in the film, her bed will later catch fire, when she drops a match on it.

"One day, to everyone's astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up," Baldwin wrote.

Whoever gets the nod has an uphill task against the Frenchman Gregory Bauge, gold medallist in Melbourne without dropping a match What's being said?

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