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Example sentences for "lighted match"

  • On these occasions, a lighted match is tied to the tail of the animal.

  • If the same mixture be touched with a lighted match, it will burn with considerable rapidity; or, Experiment 40.

  • First, pour a little alcohol into a cup--a few drops is enough--and touch a lighted match to it.

  • Hold a lighted match to the gas below the screen.

  • Cover the bottle after taking out the stick, and repeat, using a lighted match or a burning piece of wood instead of the glowing stick.

  • After the bubbles have been rising for a couple of minutes, take the test tube to the side of the laboratory where the burners are, and hold a lighted match at its mouth.

  • Raise the chimney and touch the lighted match to the ring or wick at several places.

  • Touch a lighted match to the wick, adjust the chimney, and, lastly, move the wick up or down until it burns clear and bright without smoking.

  • To light the stove, open the valve, count three, and apply a lighted match to the burner.

  • Now if one places a lighted match a little below the leaves or flowers this vapour catches fire, and there is a display of flames and smoke with little explosions, followed by a strong smell.

  • The easiest way to produce the shrinking of the leaves is, as has been mentioned, to hold a lighted match a little below the leaf-tip.

  • When the trees become dry and withered in the height of summer in either India or the United States, some careless tramp may throw aside a lighted match.

  • A good method of exposing is to hold a lighted match about 3 in.

  • The apparatus is then short-circuited, yet there is no current in the instrument until a lighted match, or, better still, the flame of an alcohol lamp is placed at one end only.

  • If a lighted match is then held near the mouth of the bottle a sharp report will be heard.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lighted match" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both families; certain conditions; drawn back; foreign assistance; going over; lighted candle; lighted lamp; lighted match; lighted taper; lighted torch; lunatic asylums; more inclined; much beloved; not true; often happens; our house; perforating ulcer; receiving intelligence; seems that; seems very; should ever; step over; suddenly occurred; thing like; thou true; vast abundance