matchless
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- matchlessly adverb
- matchlessness noun
Etymology
Origin of matchless
Example Sentences
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He crusaded to restore the state’s tumbledown missions and built the city’s first museum, the Southwest, where he housed his matchless collection of artifacts.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2022
It’s wonderful to see America’s matchless museums back in the swing of things after the past two fearful, pinched and stuttering years.
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2022
The matchless pairing of performer and part — both Fanny and Barbra were self-deprecating singers with outsize dreams — sent Streisand into the showbiz stratosphere.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2022
Transitions may be concrete, as is the one Mark Twain uses: “Well, one matchless summer’s day. . .”
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
“Here is a marvel indeed,” they would say, and make comparisons with ordinary parents who sometimes bore a child of matchless brilliance; or with a devout couple who had brought forth a wretch.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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