Matchstick is an English word with synonyms like stick. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Matchstick meaning
- A small, slender piece of wood or cardboard serving as a component of a match.
- Any similarly small and thin piece.
Synonyms of Matchstick
Using Matchstick
- The main meaning on this page is: A small, slender piece of wood or cardboard serving as a component of a match. | Any similarly small and thin piece.
- Useful related words include: stick.
Context around Matchstick
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 6 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Matchstick
- In this selection, "matchstick" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 18.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, chickpeas, little, rumble, piehouse, productions and model stand out and add context to how "matchstick" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a matchstick is pictured and a matchstick left is. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "matchstick" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with matchstick
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Who is … The Little Matchstick Girl? (6 words)
A matchstick is pictured for scale. (6 words)
A matchstick, left, is shown for scale. (7 words)
Heather Menning, a long time skier and Hamilton resident, has spearheaded a showing of the Matchstick Productions film, “Land Of Giants,” for Friday, January 5th at the Rocky Mountain Grange just south of Hamilton. (34 words)
A long-standing favorite, the fried cauliflower with ras el hanout, chickpeas, matchstick apples, mint and feta from Central Provisions is a dish I have been copying at home for nearly four years. (33 words)
The original Ripley’s Believe It Or Not in Pattaya had a matchstick model of the liner before somebody put their foot in it, literally. (25 words)
Who is … The Little Matchstick Girl? (6 words)
Example sentences (13)
Folk of the Roundtable at Matchstick Piehouse in Deptford tonight, where musicians gather, well, round a table to crank out some folk tunes.
Heather Menning, a long time skier and Hamilton resident, has spearheaded a showing of the Matchstick Productions film, “Land Of Giants,” for Friday, January 5th at the Rocky Mountain Grange just south of Hamilton.
The original Ripley’s Believe It Or Not in Pattaya had a matchstick model of the liner before somebody put their foot in it, literally.
Cut the crystallised citrus peel into matchstick-sized pieces.
He didn’t use a matchstick to remove the tooth, rather, just his hand.
A long-standing favorite, the fried cauliflower with ras el hanout, chickpeas, matchstick apples, mint and feta from Central Provisions is a dish I have been copying at home for nearly four years.
Petrol overflowed from the tanks of six motorcycles after which they were set on fire by a matchstick.
Speaking selfishly, I’ll be glad to have Matchstick as a coffee re-up option in this particular section of Vancouver.
Who is … The Little Matchstick Girl?
A matchstick is pictured for scale.
A matchstick, left, is shown for scale.
Household usage *Friction is used to heat and ignite matchsticks (friction between the head of a matchstick and the rubbing surface of the match box).
The song was also featured in the movies "Shangai Noon", "Coyote Ugly", "Ready To Rumble", "Matchstick Man" and "Serving Sara".