matchsticks
- plural of matchstick.
Example Sentences
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The first is a savory dip for vegetables — lately carrot and cucumber matchsticks or sugar snap peas.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2026
In the fires, palms went up with a whoosh, like matchsticks in hell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
In the film, memories intrude and elude; interpersonal dynamics shift unpredictably, like Nim’s matchsticks.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2024
Realising that the most annoying part of the job was going to be shaving off hundreds of thousands of bits of sulphur from individual matchsticks, he contacted the match manufacturer.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2024
Out where the bluff hadn’t offered its protection, trees were toppled like matchsticks.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
