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Definition of matchbox in English: matchboxnoun ˈmatʃbɒksˈmætʃˌbɑks 1A small box in which matches are sold, with a striking surface on one side. Example sentencesExamples - Anyway, I was mooching along Tottenham Court Road at lunchtime, and this store was selling little weeny teeny digital cameras, about the size of a matchbox.
- Aluminium tins, matchboxes and canteen tables were replaced with sophisticated musical instruments.
- They often produce matchboxes or pill bottles with fluff, splinters and other debris that they insist are specimens that they have caught.
- Shot glasses and matchboxes (usually with bar names and addresses which are useful for retracing the previous night's steps) are a favourite.
- Why is it that these places seem more concerned about how they display their designer matchboxes than the gumption level of their staff?
- Naturally I thought that he'd have a little box like a snuff box or a matchbox and he'd blow them away as we'd usually seen it done.
- A small port had been built and colossal barges looking like giant overflowing matchboxes were being towed the short distance down the coast to Korea.
- Adequate stocks of essential commodities such as rice, maida, wheat, kerosene and matchboxes were kept ready for distribution to people in case of any emergency.
- Back in England, Sam learnt that the original matchbox had been retrieved, 20 years after its loss, by a farmhand who had found it while ploughing a field that very morning.
- He scrambled through 14 tonnes of waste to find the tiny jewellery case - no bigger than a large matchbox.
- I had not gone off my habit of collecting matchbooks and matchboxes from places I visited, but sadly, they were not available here.
- Just one peek at cars the size of matchboxes was enough.
- From afar the shanty towns resembled ramshackle collections of matchboxes.
- It turns out that the young woman with the expressionless face of a professional on the catwalk loves cartoons and collecting matchboxes.
- We therefore amassed about 20 matchboxes and stuffed them with caterpillars, hiding them in nooks and crannies of our homes.
- The exhibition is a showcase of miniature artwork, with everything from converted matchboxes to sculptures made from bird bones.
- Meanwhile, the devotees, who assembled well in advance at the appointed places, lit smaller oil lamps using candles and matchboxes.
- The collection includes a horse so small it was originally sold in a matchbox and an 8ft rocking horse large enough to seat three children at once.
- Two computers, about the size of a matchbox, are attached to the side of their parachute to calculate the speed of the descent.
- The most obvious was the imbalance in the midfield, with two strong-running centres whose joint creative talent could be kept in a matchbox, along with the matches.
- 1.1as modifier Very small.
Example sentencesExamples - And I like to watch the tiny matchbox cars moving down the road and wonder whether the drivers know they're being watched from above.
- There's a large number of German iron toy cars from the 1970s and a full set of English matchbox cars, which are now worth thousands of NT dollars each.
- It sways in the breeze, and while good-looking, proves to be more of matchbox quality than I had thought.
- I'd never visited this side of the ridgeline until just a couple days ago when I saw the village transform from matchbox town to real as I descended on this road.
- From the air Darwin looks like a matchbox town that has been crushed by a giant foot.
- They were sprawls of monotonous matchbox houses devoid of color.
- That was a real, heavy metal train carriage, not a matchbox toy.
- Oddly, one architect likes to keep his matchbox car collection in his cabinet alongside his vintage shaving gear.
- Sooner or later, you'll see the cable car, which looks like a matchbox toy from the valley floor, inching up the grade.
- It's just like when you were a kid and you made your own tracks for your matchbox cars around the house.
- However while the others played together Johnny played by himself with toy airplanes and matchbox cars.
- Unfortunately, most of the houses built in 1980s and early 1990s are the same, which were called matchbox houses.
- I have some matchbox cars left over.
- Mine always bought me dolls, even though he knew what I really wanted was those little matchbox cars.
Definition of matchbox in US English: matchboxnounˈmætʃˌbɑksˈmaCHˌbäks 1A small box in which matches are sold. Example sentencesExamples - A small port had been built and colossal barges looking like giant overflowing matchboxes were being towed the short distance down the coast to Korea.
- Why is it that these places seem more concerned about how they display their designer matchboxes than the gumption level of their staff?
- I had not gone off my habit of collecting matchbooks and matchboxes from places I visited, but sadly, they were not available here.
- Anyway, I was mooching along Tottenham Court Road at lunchtime, and this store was selling little weeny teeny digital cameras, about the size of a matchbox.
- We therefore amassed about 20 matchboxes and stuffed them with caterpillars, hiding them in nooks and crannies of our homes.
- The collection includes a horse so small it was originally sold in a matchbox and an 8ft rocking horse large enough to seat three children at once.
- It turns out that the young woman with the expressionless face of a professional on the catwalk loves cartoons and collecting matchboxes.
- The most obvious was the imbalance in the midfield, with two strong-running centres whose joint creative talent could be kept in a matchbox, along with the matches.
- Naturally I thought that he'd have a little box like a snuff box or a matchbox and he'd blow them away as we'd usually seen it done.
- Back in England, Sam learnt that the original matchbox had been retrieved, 20 years after its loss, by a farmhand who had found it while ploughing a field that very morning.
- Adequate stocks of essential commodities such as rice, maida, wheat, kerosene and matchboxes were kept ready for distribution to people in case of any emergency.
- From afar the shanty towns resembled ramshackle collections of matchboxes.
- Just one peek at cars the size of matchboxes was enough.
- He scrambled through 14 tonnes of waste to find the tiny jewellery case - no bigger than a large matchbox.
- The exhibition is a showcase of miniature artwork, with everything from converted matchboxes to sculptures made from bird bones.
- They often produce matchboxes or pill bottles with fluff, splinters and other debris that they insist are specimens that they have caught.
- Shot glasses and matchboxes (usually with bar names and addresses which are useful for retracing the previous night's steps) are a favourite.
- Meanwhile, the devotees, who assembled well in advance at the appointed places, lit smaller oil lamps using candles and matchboxes.
- Aluminium tins, matchboxes and canteen tables were replaced with sophisticated musical instruments.
- Two computers, about the size of a matchbox, are attached to the side of their parachute to calculate the speed of the descent.
- 1.1as modifier Something very small, especially a house, apartment, or room.
her new thimble-sized, matchbox apartment Example sentencesExamples - Mine always bought me dolls, even though he knew what I really wanted was those little matchbox cars.
- They were sprawls of monotonous matchbox houses devoid of color.
- It's just like when you were a kid and you made your own tracks for your matchbox cars around the house.
- There's a large number of German iron toy cars from the 1970s and a full set of English matchbox cars, which are now worth thousands of NT dollars each.
- I'd never visited this side of the ridgeline until just a couple days ago when I saw the village transform from matchbox town to real as I descended on this road.
- I have some matchbox cars left over.
- However while the others played together Johnny played by himself with toy airplanes and matchbox cars.
- From the air Darwin looks like a matchbox town that has been crushed by a giant foot.
- Oddly, one architect likes to keep his matchbox car collection in his cabinet alongside his vintage shaving gear.
- It sways in the breeze, and while good-looking, proves to be more of matchbox quality than I had thought.
- And I like to watch the tiny matchbox cars moving down the road and wonder whether the drivers know they're being watched from above.
- Unfortunately, most of the houses built in 1980s and early 1990s are the same, which were called matchbox houses.
- That was a real, heavy metal train carriage, not a matchbox toy.
- Sooner or later, you'll see the cable car, which looks like a matchbox toy from the valley floor, inching up the grade.
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