Sentence examples for held a match to from inspiring English sources

Josef knelt and held a match to the brazier, turned it on, and heard it come hissing to life.

Then held a match to the carpet on the stairs and, once it started burning, raised a finger, like, Quiet, through me runs the power of recent dark experience.

On the May 20 episode of Impact!, TNA held a match to determine the number one contenders to the NWA World Tag Team Championship.

TNA held a match to warm up the crowd known as a dark match prior to the show pitting The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) against the team of Lance Hoyt and Johnny Devine.

In Headscarves and Hymens, the Egyptian-American journalist and activist Mona Eltahawy holds a match to this combustible mix.

Gang Lu stands stiffly talking to Chris, while Bob holds a match to his pipe and puffs fiercely; nose daggers waft up and out, right in my direction.

Test prep is like holding a match to a thermostat and believing the room will get warmer: scores may rise on that test, but learning does not.

When you're feeling a little chilly in your living room, you don't hold a match to a thermometer and then claim that the room has gotten warmer.

To promote a new way of making children's clothes flame-resistant, he got his daughter to go on television and hold a match to her favourite rag doll.The one skill he lacked was for bureaucratic in-fighting.

Ms. Park's pudding incorporates so much brandy that instead of warming additional brandy and dousing the whole thing before lighting, customers can simply hold a match to it.

If I hold a match to your big toe and put your head in an MRI scanner, I can see exactly which section of your brain gets alerted by the fire on your toe.