Sentence examples for funny match from inspiring English sources

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Its success amazed her, and put her under pressure; while she'd planned for Jo to be "a literary spinster" like her, so many readers wrote demanding she get married that, Alcott told a friend, "I didn't dare to refuse and out of perversity went and made a funny match for her". No wonder an ending written under pressure and "out of perversity" feels wrong.

Perhaps, like Alcott herself, Jo should have remained a "literary spinster", but, said her creator, "so many enthusiastic young ladies wrote to me clamorously demanding that she should marry Laurie, or somebody, that I didn't dare refuse, and out of perversity went and made a funny match for her".

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Unferth is best known as a prose fiction writer, and her language is sly and bitterly funny, matched in mood by Haidle's monochromatic, inkwash-style artwork, which plays up the story's whimsy as well as its sadness.

I've since married someone else who not only claims to love me but makes a much better (read: funnier) match than the aforementioned.

Ms. Jones made a cameo-in-clay appearance on "Deathmatch" as a spectator in one of its earliest and funniest matches, pitting Hillary Rodham Clinton against a beret-wearing Monica Lewinsky.

It's a funny old match, science and the Cure.

"Tim thought it would be funny to match the surfing backdrop of a beach movie with some sort of German Expressionism, because they're totally wrong together," Gems reflected.

The proposed sequel was bizarre to say the least, but screenwriter Gems defended Burton's idea: "Tim thought it would be funny to match the surfing backdrop of a beach movie with some sort of German Expressionism, because they're totally wrong together".

After three years of Tinder messaging and a viral Twitter exchange, one of the Internet's funniest Tinder matches finally met in real life on Tuesday.

This pair are from New Zealand and have the funny voices to match.

For a person with autism, the idea of what's fun or funny doesn't match yours, I guess.

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