matchmaker

Example Sentences

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Over time, the tradition expanded and parents take the pictures of their daughters they want to marry off but have no suitors to a traditional matchmaker to find them a lover.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

Dean has become a kind of matchmaker, pairing neighbors’ needs with volunteers’ skills and, in the process, strengthening the sense of mattering of everyone who walks through the door.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026

Jay, with his bouffant curly hair and preternatural ability to remember the smallest details, became a de facto musical matchmaker.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025

A movie where the perennially single New York matchmaker has finally met her match in two highly eligible bachelors?

From Salon • Jun. 14, 2025

I saw the matchmaker place the lighted red candle in a gold holder and then hand it to a nervous-looking servant.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan