Sentence examples for struck the match from inspiring English sources

To which Hunter responded: "Ask him who struck the match.

Nothing concentrates the mind like the burning of 300 acres after you have struck the match.

"I've seen my friends on fire, I might have even struck the match," sings Grant McLennan, before adding nonchalantly that it's his turn next.

It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war: not just al-Qa'ida, al-Nusra, defectors and Nato, but with the intelligence services whose brutality in Daraa struck the match to the Syrian uprising.

Is it true, they want to know, that AIDS was invented in a laboratory to kill off young black men? ("Baby, we're in the fire now; we don't have time to find out who struck the match").

In one scene, a weeping patient tells him that she was attacked by a husband who threw battery acid on her, a sister-in-law who doused her with gasoline and a mother-in-law who struck the match that set her on fire.

Just eight minutes after Watford's Marvin Sordell cancelled out Adam Rooney's first-half effort for the visitors, forward Chris Wood looked to have struck the match-winner for Birmingham with only two minutes left to play, before Taylor's crucial goal arrived.

ATLANTA — Within days of the Atlanta Braves' 2011 season going up in flames, Manager Fredi Gonzalez phoned Craig Kimbrel, one of the players who struck the matches.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation questioned a passenger who admitted that she struck the matches in an effort to conceal a "body odor," Ms. Lowrance said.

"She would be striking the match away from her, so the flint wouldn't shoot at her," Mr. Ventura said.

Striking the match from record was "highly unlikely," said a person from the International Cricket Council who was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.