How to Use matchbook in a Sentence

matchbook

noun

• Oh right, did all of that stuff with the lightning and matchbook get closed out?
  — Lorena O’Neil, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• Kitchen had heard about Bricks as a kid, growing up in the suburbs — his mom had a matchbook from the place from the mid-‘90s.
  — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
• There is no word limit, but the story must fit on the inside of a matchbook.
  — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2023
• The matchbook flashed like a sunset, its gilt cover catching the light.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• Entries have to fit on the inside of a matchbook cover, roughly 40 to 50 words.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
• Because even the matchbooks should match your color scheme.
  — Micaela English, Town & Country, 30 June 2015
• Pick something small that’s not going to take up a lot of space — like matchbooks or bookmarks.
  — Hope Corrigan, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
• Back home, Serena takes out the politician’s matchbook and throws it into the fire.
  — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 June 2018
• The device’s most sci-fi element — the laser that projects a text menu onto a hand — started inside a box the size of a matchbook.
  — Photographs and Videos By Kelsey McClellan, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• Entries in earlier years had to fit on the inside of a matchbook cover, limiting them to about 40 to 50 words.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2020
• And golden bangles worn off belt loops were very tongue-in-cheek, including pill packs, a tape dispenser and an open matchbook.
  — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2019
• Yield: About 30 pieces, approximately the size of a matchbook.
  — Lizzie Widdicombe, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2017
• The winner will have her or his story printed on the inside of the official Library Shop matchbook and will receive 50 copies of it.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 Oct. 2017
• The awareness was reflected in pins, patches, buttons, T-shirts, hats, mugs and matchbooks.
  — Hal Boedeker, orlandosentinel.com, 22 June 2019
• Entrants are limited to stories that fit on the inside of a matchbook cover.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 Oct. 2017
• Branded matchbooks were thoughtfully placed at the bar, and couches lined the pool for guests to lounge before dinner began.
  — Rachel Besser, Vogue, 14 July 2023
• According to the scientists, about 60 waxworms chewed through a matchbook-sized square of plastic bag in under a week.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2020
• Spots show up elsewhere, too: on sure-to-be-collectible coasters, matchbooks, swizzle sticks, and even the felts of the gaming tables nearby and on casino chips.
  — Adam Robb, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 May 2018
• Despite their tiny size, none of these miniature men are posed standing straight up, like simple matchbook stick figures.
  — Barbara Henry, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 June 2017
• Satisfaction can be found in pocketing a matchbook, a bookmark or a little postcard that comes with the bill at the restaurant.
  — Hope Corrigan, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
• Collectors use the online marketplace to buy and sell ephemera from the restaurant, including matchbooks and menus.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• The San Diego Library Shop has unmasked the winner of its quirky annual writing contest, in which entries have to fit on the inside of a matchbook cover.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2020
• Each table had a personalized matchbook with a custom drawing of the couple, done by @king_margot.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 19 Dec. 2022
• Tyson Street, a short back street of matchbook-sized classic 1830s Baltimore houses, was in severe decline.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 10 Aug. 2019
• The research published in the European Journal of Nutrition linked chowing down on about 40 grams of cheese daily (about the size of a matchbook) with the lowest chances of heart disease and stroke.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 6 Dec. 2017
• The plot, based on a couple of Damon Runyan stories but updated to the early days of television, could fit on a matchbook cover.
  — John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press, 27 Aug. 2017
• To build a useful spacecraft that’s roughly matchbook size is...something that would have inconceivable not so long ago.
  — NBC News, 18 Sep. 2017
• Everything in this room has too much meaning, down to the old coffee tin of political buttons and empty matchbooks.
  — Darryl Pinckney, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2016
• At one point, Ernestine poured gasoline over Irving’s convertible, an Oldsmobile Delta 88, and threatened him with a matchbook.
  — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
• Special matchbook art can also be commissioned by sending in a matchbook from a favorite spot.
  — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Oct 2024