matchbox
pronunciation
How to pronounce matchbox in British English:
UK [ˈmætʃbɒks]
How to pronounce matchbox in American English:
US [ˈmætʃbɑks]
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- Noun:
- a box for holding matches
Word Origin
- matchbox (n.)
- also match-box, 1786, from match (n.1) + box (n.).
Example
- 1. And its size , currently that of a paperback book , will shrink to that of a pack of cards and ultimately to that of a matchbox .
- 2. There is a winter , the boys wake up the middle of the night , also saw his mother bent over a lamp in the body under the matchbox paste .
- 3. I use leftover bits of wrapping paper to pack small plastic spoons , a brand-new crayola or matchbox car or even , a small ziploc filled with raisins and chopped almonds .
- 4. As a child I was an avid collector of matchbox cars , a model railroader and a builder of models ( cars , ships and airplanes ) .
- 5. On the junior high school , for boys and gejie enough to pay tuition fees when the mother went to work sewing collar neighborhood home to some matchbox , paste in the evening at the zhengdian cents up at home .