safety match
Example Sentences
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She struck a safety match, and flames roared 20 feet into the air, until only her two out stretched hands were visible.
From Time Magazine Archive
THE safety match that resists all other friction needs only the touch of its peculiar mate to break into flame.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Hughes, Rupert
It was a night wherein a hundred searchlights and a million star-flares would not have made more impression on the density of the fog than would the striking of a safety match.
From Bruce by Terhune, Albert Payson
Frey caught it and flicked a safety match with his fingernail.
From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various
“Have sent,” said his entertainer briefly, as he filled a pipe from the open tobacco box and struck a safety match.
From Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters by King, Charles
