Match Stick

Cut the fillo sheets into small strips, match-stick size. ❋ Mercedes (2007)

Pine seedlings can be pricked out three or four days after germination, when the seed coat is still attached to the cotyledons giving the appearance of a match-stick. ❋ Unknown (1999)

He was holding a miniature match-stick schooner - encased in an even tinier bottle - up to the sunlight streaming into the stall. ❋ Peale, Constance F. (1982)

'Breast of chicken marinated in lemon juice and baked under match-stick thin bars of herb pastry.' ❋ Francis, Dick, 1920- (1981)

The filly was resting in the straw, her match-stick legs folded under her, and the mare was munching the extra feed of oats the Kentuckian had tipped in for her. ❋ Andre Norton (1958)

He sat there for some time, gulping to himself, and allowed me to mop his back with a ball of cotton wool on the end of a match-stick. ❋ Durrell, Gerald, 1925- (1956)

Larry would inquire in a pained voice, delicately picking his teeth with a match-stick. ❋ Durrell, Gerald, 1925- (1956)

This is as bad form as dropping a match-stick on the polished drawing-room floor of one's hostess or home. ❋ Lillian Eichler Watson (N/A)

Barney, whose spirit revolted at such a cause, threw his match-stick at the captain, with such force that the iron point stuck in the door of the round-house. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

He pressed the little pin-head button at the end of the instrument which was hardly larger than a match-stick. ❋ Murray Leinster (1935)

Making spectacular _virages_, I missed collisions by the length of a match-stick. ❋ James Norman Hall (1919)

They ain't so much as a match-stick left in the trenches. ❋ James Norman Hall (1919)

But the mere presence of these women was like a lighted match-stick to dry fuel. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Like blocks of tin soldiers the army covers the cornfield, moves up the hillside, stops, reels slightly this way and that, and falls flat, save that, through field glasses, it can be seen that one or two pieces still agitate up and down like fragments of broken match-stick. ❋ Virginia Woolf (1911)

Ware flung the match-stick away and settled himself comfortably into his chair. ❋ Meredith Nicholson (1906)

Of the dirigible there was not so much of as a match-stick left. ❋ John Henry Goldfrap (1898)

But I was fond of the Beeb, liked its funky orange function keys - cool compared to the staid Apple II at school - and even quite enjoyed that I had to glue a match-stick to prop up the failing space bar, a standard fix I found out about at school. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Implanon is a small, match-stick size rod inserted underneath the skin of the upper arm for up to three years.

"A match-stick was lying on the aisle of the aircraft near the seat of a passenger and a lady spotted it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Tom] always has [dates] but never a [steady] girlfriend, I think he's a match-stick. ❋ Xercise (2010)

Boy 1: Dude how was that [match stick kiss] that girl gave you at the party last night? Boy 2: Alright, but [I did it] wrong and [burnt] my mouth ❋ Beyonce_is_my_sex (2009)