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

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

From Salon • Jun. 17, 2025

It first launched its Airbnb Experiences program in 2016, serving as a matchmaker between travelers and people offering their services as specialized tour guides and teachers.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2025

Ignoring the pleas of the matchmaker and his mother to continue meeting other women, he wrote the girl letters.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña