7 sentences with 'match'
Example sentences and phrases with the word match and other words derived from it.
• « The critics were of the same opinion: that Jon was no match for this group of highly trained competitors. »
• « Researchers have been able to accurately match the colours they see on satellite maps to the location of individual species. »
• « The problem with this model is that it did not match the observed paths of the stars and, especially, the planets, which do not follow regular, circular orbits. »
• « The last great continental power, Prussia, entered the war in 1806, but its army was no match for Napoleon, who defeated the Prussians at the Battle of Jena and then occupied Berlin. »
• « Although the first weeks of the German invasion seemed to match the ambitions of the Schlieffen Plan, they were soon halted. A fierce French counter-attack stopped the Germans in Belgium and north-eastern France in late September. »
• « However, although Russian soldiers were also the Germans' match, Russia was hampered by its inadequate industrial base and lack of railway lines and automobiles. »
• « Soviet finances were in such disarray in the second half of the 1980s that Gorbachev simply ended the arms race with the United States, admitting that the USSR could not match America's gigantic arsenal. »