Sentence examples for without matches from inspiring English sources

You can't really expect goals on days without matches – that's asking too much.

"The English have already gone a long time without matches," he said.

As dusk fell, he taught me useful knots, how to erect a tarpaulin and how to make fire in nine different ways (without matches or lighters).

Its new summer program — a two-week, college-credit course called the Adirondack Woodsmen's School — is dedicated to traditional lumberjack skills and sports, like carving a dugout canoe, building a fire without matches and throwing an ax.

Such techniques include building shelters from available materials, making fire without matches, locating water, identifying edible plants, manufacturing tools, hunting and trapping animals with primitive devices, and making protective clothing and blankets from skins and fibres.

Desperate for a cigarette but embarrassed to smoke on the street, she ducks one afternoon into the vestibule of a Catholic cathedral and, finding herself without matches, obtains a light from a heavenly source.

We then repeated the matching process and estimation of length of ICU stay but without matching on mortality status.

Digital revolution without matching digital revenue means demolition, not transition.

He signed into law huge cuts in domestic spending without matching revenue hikes.

The average cost of buying a World Cup package through a specialist tour operator is £3,000, without match tickets.

Its relations with the forces have suffered as the military has been given bigger burdens without matching resources.