matchmaker

Example Sentences

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Over time, the tradition expanded and parents take the pictures of their daughters they want to marry off but have no suitors to a traditional matchmaker to find them a lover.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

She once hired a matchmaker, and recently attended a run club.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

The humor of “Fiddler” was well accounted for in Lisa Fishman’s Yente, the matchmaker involved in everybody’s business.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2025

As Lucy, a New York matchmaker, Johnson’s character has turned the intangibles into her trade.

From Salon • Jun. 17, 2025

She had already told him that the Battaglia matchmaker had advised a vacation for him in the psychiatric ward at Charity.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole