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matchbox
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" Matchbox " is a rockabilly song recorded by Carl Perkins in December 1956. It shares some lyrics with 1920s blues songs by Ma Rainey and Blind Lemon Jefferson . Sam Phillips and Sun Records released the song as the B-side to " Your True Love ". Although ...
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n. a box for holding matches
Usage examples of matchbox.
The string of squarish vehicles crawled slowly by, small as matchboxes, the toy men on their toy camels like red spiders beside them.
How amazed Ernest would have been at the target of their antismuggling activities — blocks of crystal, about the size of a matchbox, that had made their way from Hong Kong via Cuba.
Soon after arriving there, he left in different clothes than he'd worn out of the hotel-taking a side exit rather than the back door, the only detail not to meet Ricci's prediction to the letter -and was then chauffeured off in the passenger seat of an unmarked sedan that pulled into the crosstown avenue's westbound lanes and clanked along seemingly on two cylinders, an authentic touch that allowed it to blend nicely with the crumpled matchboxes driven by the average motorist in this land of plenty.
The other was the usual jumble of a junk drawer - pieces of string, drawing pins, a broken nail file, a couple of half-used rolls ofSellotape, candle ends, torch bulbs, matchboxes and odd screws.
He waited till the porter had gone, drew out his gold cigarette case, selected a cigarette with due care, examined it minutely, inserted it with much deliberation in his holder, took his time about finding his matchbox and removing a match, finally lit the cigarette.
If you put a piece of hard coal no bigger than a matchbox in it, it would burn all day .
Everything, down to the silver matchbox on the marble table, the flowers in the gem-like Murano glass bowls, seemed to have its precise place and relation to everything else, as if the person who inhabited this domain had a highly developed mathematical mind.
I thanked the years of experience that had taught me how to keep matches dry by filling a full matchbox with melted candle wax so that the matches were embedded in a block of paraffin wax.
Matchboxes from various restaurants and bars were in the drawer with a bottle of K-Y personal lubricant.
My hands trembled so much that twice I missed the rough paper of the matchbox.
To begin with, the stones are sent in all sizes and shapes of parcel from matchbox size to crates as big as a tea chest.