Match

My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.

Can you play billiards? / Yes, do you wish to have a match with me? / Let us simply play (a game) for pleasure. We needn't have a match, as I don't like to gamble.

Ferrer his Taberd vvith rich Verry ſpred, / VVell knovvne in many a vvarlike match before; […]

A solemn match was made; he lost the prize.

He knew he had met his match.

Government […] makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects.

Dean Ippolito looks like an ordinary kid. But at chess, he is a knight of battle. Most adults are no match for him.

She […] was looked upon as the richest match of the West.

The seat to window match is excellent and there are half-size partition screens between bays.

It were no match, your nail against his horn.

The carpet and curtains are a match.

a match made in heaven

Thy hand upon that match.

[I]t hath been obſerv'd, that Love doth ſeldome ſuffer it ſelf to be confin'd by other matches, then thoſe of its ovvne making.

Their interests didn't match, so it took a long time to agree what to do together.

These two copies are supposed to be identical, but they don't match.

I'll be interested to see how this service does. It will be basic with fares to match, so will be akin to a budget airline taking on a flag-carrier.

His interests didn't match her interests.

There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.

She matched him at every turn: anything he could do, she could do as well or better.

They found out about his color-blindness when he couldn't match socks properly.

Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.

[…]Adam's sons are my brethren; and truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

A senator of Rome survived, Would not have matched his daughter with a king.

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He struck a match and lit his cigarette.