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

One volunteer matchmaker, an older woman known as Sister Gao, comes each week with dozens of profiles for attendees to browse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 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

Fischer began collecting photos of other Hungarian girls he’d like to meet, and he recruited his new friend and assistant Janos Rigo—an international master and chess organizer—-to serve as a matchmaker.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady