Sentence examples for takes a match from inspiring English sources

"Sometimes it just takes a match for me to get through the rustiness".

"Sometimes it takes a match like that to make him realize that he needs to toughen up," Gavaldón said in a telephone interview from San Diego, where Gómez travels to train from his home across the border in Tijuana.

Big Ben scuttles back on his second attempt and releases a rapid-fire pass deep into the right hand corner where Holmes leaps and takes a match-winning catch to put Pittsburgh moments away from Super Bowl glory.

Finally her mother-in-law took a match and set her on fire.

It was the 19th time Bangladesh had failed to take a match beyond the third of five scheduled days.

It has been in his hand for five minutes, but he has forgotten to take a match to it.

Mr. Hampton said that he refused and that Mr. Evans took a match from him and lighted it, causing a fireball that knocked Mr. Hampton down some stairs.

"She goes to bed with her husband that night, doesn't complete the sex act, took a match and she threw it on the bed," Ms. Bender said.

What Elio and Oliver do to a peach, for instance, might have made T. S. Eliot take a match to "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".

He took a match from one of his aides and lit a broad candle with three wicks, one for each of his relatives there.

"I just can't see throwing my hands up," he said, "or asking someone to take a match to the container".