Sentence examples for hold a match from inspiring English sources
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.
Just as it seemed she would run away with it, Williams turned things around enough to go up 5-4 and hold a match point.
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.
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.
There is no excuse for fighting but this ugly reminder of football's darker days was also a reminder that Uefa's decision to hold a match at a venue where demand was always going to outstrip supply – and especially so after Liverpool booked their place – was an idiotic one.
When I think of a child's wish list, I imagine a heartfelt note to Santa, with a few charming misspellings, scrawled laboriously on a piece of smudged paper: "For me a pony and Santa plese can Tiny Tim walk without crutchs?" Hold a match to the corner and it disappears in a puff of innocence up the chimney.
A game earlier the Swiss player had held a match point but lost it allowing Haas to level at 6-6.
Holding a match point has been no guarantee of a major upset at the All England Club this year.
Josef knelt and held a match to the brazier, turned it on, and heard it come hissing to life.
In Headscarves and Hymens, the Egyptian-American journalist and activist Mona Eltahawy holds a match to this combustible mix.
