love match
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of love match
First recorded in 1740–50
Example Sentences
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He’ll even dig up the grave of a suitable love match.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
Whether Turner and Nist’s love match turns out to be the Real Deal doesn't concern most of us in the long run.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2023
He’s also staging it at his Washington company, with an entirely different setting: a D.C. television newsroom, in which the passive-aggressive love match of Beatrice and Benedick is co-anchoring a telecast.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2022
But I hope by the end, she has this humbling redemptive moment where she does find a love match with someone who loves her for her flaws, rather than despite her flaws.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
It was a love match on her side—nobody knew exactly what it was on his; but they made a moonlight flitting of it, for the lady's friends were grievously wroth.
From Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir by Fleming, May Agnes
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