He was playing with a box of matches he'd found in the house.

You see the thing had gone off like a box of matches.

Give a child a box of matches, and there will always be some one to show him how to set fire to a house.

They make nuclear energy look like a box of matches.

I'm sure it went up like a box of matches.

The box of matches lay on a table by the door.

Three boxes of matches might last a local year if we used only one a day.

In 1858 their company produced around 12 million match boxes.

His eye caught a box of matches on the desk.

She'd seen Sophie go into the study with a box of matches, she said, just minutes before they'd left.