matchbook

Example Sentences

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What once took a tall cylindrical speaker, or at least a chunky hockey puck, now fits into the space of a couple matchboxes or perhaps a small chocolate-covered toffee slab.

From The Verge • Aug. 6, 2019

These—Adams listed cotton-reels, matchboxes, broken clothes pegs, mustard tins, eggshells—were the debris of a society that had more and more sloughed-off material to spare.

From Slate • Dec. 24, 2018

In Switzerland, the harder he worked to mold heads and figures, the more they crumbled and shrank, to the point that, when he returned to Paris, he could transport many of the works in matchboxes.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 11, 2018

This is extremely large equipment, and it’s whipped around like empty matchboxes.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2016

He trapped fireflies in matchboxes so he would not inhale them in his sleep.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat