strike a match
Example Sentences
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Those real-life events strike a match that lights the film’s slow fuse.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2024
"If you tried to strike a match in here, nothing would happen due to the lack of oxygen," Mr Bruce says.
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2022
Now, Bowden will try to strike a match against a pillar, and it’s enough of a collision that, in the run-up, it overshadows the gathering promise of a North Carolinian, Virginia Tech quarterback Hendon Hooker.
From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2019
Tragically, the college later said that what had pushed her to fatally strike a match was the result of an error.
From Reuters • Dec. 10, 2014
She understood and moved back a step, crowding him slightly as he tried to strike a match.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
