245 Verbs to Use for the Word match

After a moment, I struck another match, and, stumbling across the room, lit the candles.

Jack tied the man's unresisting hands with his own canteen-straps; then seated him near the wall and lighted a match.

" She found out a match, immediately lighting two jets of a center-chandelier, turning them down from singing, drawing the shades of the two front and the southeast windows, stooping over the upholstered chair to imprint a light kiss.

Give a narrative of: The earning of your first dollar How somebody met his match An amusing incident An anxious moment A surprise The touchdown That fatal seventh inning How you got the position Why you missed the train When you were lost Your first trip on the railroad (a motor boat, a merry-go-round, snowshoes, a burro)

He broke his match between nervous fingers.

almost as good as the time when that fool of a master of yours, Lake, or Blake, or whatever you call him, had me sent off the field so that you could win the match.

"I've got here a challenge from Horace House to play a match against them, either on our ground or on theirs.

" He touched a match to the fuse.

Would they change their minds, and instead of drowning them apply a slow match and blow up the shed?

"Look here, Captain Selover," I demanded, "don't you know that I could blow your whole shooting-match higher than Gilderoy's kite.

Are you going to throw away millions, lose your chance of making the best match in the city, and driving the girls of our set out of their wits with envy?

He went back to Peoria, and told his neighbors that there was a place in New York where they got up a yawning match (this coarse person called it a "gaping bee") every night between the stage and the audience, and the stage always won.

Somebody scratched a match and lit a pipe.

He took a little wax match from his pocket and struck it on his sleeve; the flame flashed out.

'Linstocke' (or, more correctly, 'lint-stock')a stick for holding a gunner's match.

When he got a light he crossed the grass, as if he meant to throw the match over the hedge.

By the time this trick was worn out, other waggish gentlemen had introduced the practice of dropping wax matches on the floor and treading on them, and of hunting an imaginary mothan irresistibly humorous proceeding, in which the participators rushed about brandishing books and magazines, ever and anon crying, "There he is!" and smiting on the head some quiet, unoffending reader.

Two of the company were blind men, very pious, who gain their living by selling matches.

The affections are rarely consulted on either side, for the mother of the bridegroom commonly arranges the match for her son.

Passing by the trees under whose shade Mike and Psmith and Dunster had watched the match on the previous day, he came upon the Head of his house in a deck chair reading a book.

Philip, if this would prove a match, It were the only means that could be found To make thy mother friends with Mistress Goursey.

One of them, who had drunk less than the others, came up to me and very civilly proposed a match.

did anybody think to bring matches?" asked Laura in an awed whisper.

The latter carried the hoop in one hand, some matches in the other.

I saw several other matches played, in which great sums were betted, great skill was exhibited, and occasionally much unfairness practised.

245 Verbs to Use for the Word  match