ill-matched
Example Sentences
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The author’s ill-matched father and mother are saints; his stepmother, Raine Spencer, a sinner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
However, you’ll need to read not just “Swann in Love” but the rest of “In Search of Lost Time” to learn what happens to this ill-matched couple.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2022
Real was beaten within 10 minutes: two goals down, ruthlessly exposed, looking suddenly like the expensive collection of gifted but ill-matched individuals that all right-thinking people dismissed them as about four Champions League titles ago.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2022
Step forward ill-matched cops Martin Rohde and more interestingly Saga Norén, a brilliant but bizarre investigator unlike any maverick TV detective ever seen.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2019
In the next place, a singular increase in determination and moral force was infused into the disheartened and ill-matched troops of the French commanders by this piece of resistance.
From The French Revolution by Hilaire Belloc
