matchmaker

Example Sentences

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After waiting for years for a suitor, Aisha is frustrated and has turned now to enlist the services of an online matchmaker site to find a husband of her dreams: rich and educated.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

Dean has become a kind of matchmaker, pairing neighbors’ needs with volunteers’ skills and, in the process, strengthening the sense of mattering of everyone who walks through the door.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026

The two met each other cross-country through a matchmaker after she, then Ariell Kirylo, had moved away from the L.A. area.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2026

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

From Salon • Jun. 17, 2025

If the matchmaker hasn’t found a satisfactory arrangement for Ruby, I’ve met a widowed merchant who needs a wife to help his parents in a village outside Guangdong.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu