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matched

How to use matched in a sentence

They were a well-matched pair; iron-nerved, both of them, the sort of men to face sudden death open-eyed and unafraid.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

His cheerfulness was unbounded, and it was matched by his goodness of heart, his broad charity, and common sense.

The hair was stiff and bristly, and stood out in every direction, while the beard matched it in growth and quantity.

We had seen nothing just like it in England, though some of the Scotch villages which we saw later, matched it very well.

But the voice of this comfortable, suave-looking missionary by no means matched his appearance.

THE CHEQUERSJAMES RUNCIMAN

But he now indulged in such an act of folly as can hardly be matched, even in the annals of Irish misgovernment.

But an unreliable boy at our school matched this history from the unwritten archives of his vulgar relatives.

She felt no anger that he reviled her; she could only sympathize with him in his great despair—despair that matched her own.

THEY LOOKED AND LOVEDMRS. ALEX MCVEIGH MILLER

The ponies appeared to be well matched, however, and the exhausting chase continued.

THREE SIOUX SCOUTSELMER RUSSELL GREGOR

Afraid of finding themselves alone at Nohant, the ill-matched pair continued their migration on leaving their friends.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985