matchless
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- matchlessly adverb
- matchlessness noun
Etymology
Origin of matchless
Example Sentences
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Adapted by screenwriter Andy Wolk into a really good 1987 TV movie with Michelle Pfeiffer, it makes you want to spend all day just listening to that assured, insinuating, pseudo-anthropological, matchless O’Hara voice.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023
It’s wonderful to see America’s matchless museums back in the swing of things after the past two fearful, pinched and stuttering years.
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2022
The matchless pairing of performer and part — both Fanny and Barbra were self-deprecating singers with outsize dreams — sent Streisand into the showbiz stratosphere.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2022
Transitions may be concrete, as is the one Mark Twain uses: “Well, one matchless summer’s day. . .”
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
No mistaking him: matchless rider gliding over rail fences in parade-ground precision, effortless motion, always a superb rider.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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