matchstick

Noun

Meaning

a short thin stick of wood used in making matches

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Examples

I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?". Muhammad Ali

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume. Dolly Parton

He could see his master now, standing alone amid the matchstick trunks of the birch trees. Source: Internet

In 2003 Altman played Nicholas Cage’s psychiatrist in the Ridley Scott comedy “Matchstick Men.” Source: Internet

Holmes then turned back and away from his host and refocused his needs on the pipe and its matchstick. Source: Internet

A matchstick is pictured for scale. Source: Internet

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