safety match
Example Sentences
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She struck a safety match, and flames roared 20 feet into the air, until only her two out stretched hands were visible.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next, he struck a safety match, softly, against the side of the match-box, and lighted his pipe, drawing in great whiffs.
From The Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise The Young Kings of the Deep by Victor G. Durham
She lit it with a safety match and extinguished the match with a nervous flick of her arm.
From Earth Alert! by Kris Neville
After several ineffectual attempts to light this, he discovered it was a safety match.
From The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The outside cover of a small safety match box is given to the first man on each team.
From School, Church, and Home Games by George Orrin Draper
