It was getting too hot for him, and he evidently saw that his ship was no match for us, and he turned to get back to his fleet.
The "Alabama" was no match for her in speed, so a more peremptory summons was sent in the shape of a shell that cut the steamer's foremast in two.
Tremendous as was the cannonade, the earthworks were almost a match for it.
But he was no match for Rothesay's cunning, and readily swallowed his enemy's smiling professions of regard and good wishes for his married happiness.
As an orator he is ranked next to Bright; as a party manager, he was always a match for Disraeli, and as a statesman he has won the foremost place in British annals during the last half century.
Samuel Johnson seem an idler, and his varied attainments and activities were fairly a match for Gladstone.
When I saw her, I took her for a smaller lugger that sails from that port, and which is no more than a match for us.
I certainly consider my own men to be a match for an equal number of French.
She has been much more than a match for any of our privateers here and, although she has been chased several times by the cruisers, she has always managed to get away.
It is true, I am not such a match for you as Frangipani.
I thought I could parry a simple tierce, even though I might not be a match for you!
This man of the world, who had spent half his life in the struggles of Wall Street and a tangle of politics, was no match for a creature so pure and true as our Jessie.
Awful 'cute lady that is, Miss Hyde; you ain't no match for her, nohow!
Why, she's almost more'n a match for me, and to see you floppin' up at her quite took my breath away!
Njal came to talk with his son Helgi, and said, "I have thought of a match for thee, if thou wilt follow my advice.
Both Runolf and Kettle besought Thrain that he would make up his quarrel with Njal's sons; but he said he would never pay any money, and answered crossly, for he said he thought himself quite a match for Njal's sons wherever they met.
They will have hard work to go against thy good fortune, for thou wilt be more than a match for all of them.
They are no more a match for 'em than a pony is for a coach-horse.
You have heerd a school come out, of little boys, Lord its no touch to it; or a flock of geese at it, they are no more a match for em than a pony is for a coach-horse.
I admit fairly that I'm not a match for him," said he, "strong as I am.
But I'll be a match for you to-night, my fine mouse," said he.
The other stood on the defensive, but he was no match for Edgar, who was in hard exercise, and in regular practice with the gloves, and whose blood was thoroughly up.
Had it not been for that they would have been too strong for us, for they were all fighting men in their prime, and five or six of my men were no match for them in a hand-to-hand fight.
He then drew his sword; but he was no match for me, and soon I left him sprawling on the ground, dead or alive, I knew not which.
Strong as she was, her strength was nomatch for John's, and her struggles were in vain.
She was more than a match for most; and it was not a secret.
Hanging there on the wall, she was a match for Mrs. Lovell.
As for the heiress whom he has here to make a match for me, he and I must have a pitched battle about her by and by.
I should be more than a match for him, of course, but I'm the master of the house, and the laws of hospitality must be respected.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "match for" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
