# MultiMatchQuery for simple phrase search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multimatchquery-for-simple-phrase-search/318542>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** language-clients\
**Created:** [November 9, 2022, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multimatchquery-for-simple-phrase-search/318542 "2022-11-09T13:05:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![jjc](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jjc/32/113154_2.png) [@jjc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jjc)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multimatchquery-for-simple-phrase-search/318542/1 "2022-11-09T13:05:52Z")

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Hi, i need some help.

i'm simply trying to retrieve documents with the word "Cheese" in some of its fields.

Below is a sample document.

```auto
{"caption":"Cheese, An authentic Creole Jambalaya recipe!",
 "description":"Jambalaya, delicious one-pot meal Cheese coming to you from New Orleans", 
"productid":"75","productname":"Cheese Jambalaya"}

```

The MultiMatchQuery query used doesn't return any hits.

Below is the sample code used.

```auto
MultiMatchQueryBuilder multiMatchQueryBuilder = new MultiMatchQueryBuilder("Cheese", "caption","productname","description");
        SearchRequest searchRequest = new SearchRequest(index);
        SearchSourceBuilder searchSourceBuilder = new SearchSourceBuilder()
                .from(0).size(resultcount).timeout(TimeValue.timeValueMillis(X_TIMEOUT_MILLIS));
        searchSourceBuilder.query(multiMatchQueryBuilder);
        searchRequest.source(searchSourceBuilder);
        restHighLevelClient.searchAsync(searchRequest, RequestOptions.DEFAULT, actionListener);

```

Pls, what is wrong and what's the right way to accomplish this?

thanks alot.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2022, 1:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multimatchquery-for-simple-phrase-search/318542/2 "2022-12-07T13:06:37Z")

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