How To Use Torch In A Sentence

Rising up off a stone bench that stood in a shadowy area out of the torchlight was a dark, robed figure. Dragons of Winter Night
We bumbled around each other like Laurel and Hardy in the gloom, fumbling for a torch we couldn't find.
Eventually, the besotted warriors either passed out or crawled away as the torches guttered and smoked into mere embers.
He ran the torch over the shelves cabinets table drawers but there were no more photographs and no obvious photo albums.
Arsonists torched a town-centre bar, causing residents in nearby houses to flee in terror.

These included repeated punchings, kickings, beatings with a baseball bat and truncheon, being urinated on and threatened with a syringe and blowtorch.
These portable torches use pressurized tanks of propane and, if handled carelessly, can be hazardous.
Gunmen also torched a van parked in the courtyard, as well as a large toolshed.
They are convicted and must, if the US people are to reclaim their until now unchallenged position as torch-bearers for a better world, be booted out of office at the earliest opportunity.
Everyone needed to know we were carrying the torch of our past into the future. Christianity Today
In a sport beset by serious doping problems, he was always regarded as a torch-bearer.
No longer the torch-bearer of iconoclasm, the scourge of intellectual hypocrisy, I had become instead mere target practice for Banner Wavers Anonymous.
The ogoh-ogoh, escorted by groups of people carrying bamboo torches and a loud gamelan ensemble, are paraded on the night before Nyepi.
The whole place had a damp and evil smell, and as I moved my torch a rat scuttled across the floor.
Noise rose from below like effluent from a blocked toilet and the light was so dim the waitress had to check the reservation book with a torch. Restaurant review: Platform
With temperatures below zero and icy roads many people were unable to get into the village for supplies of candles, batteries for torches etc.
A spark occurred and the inside of the capsule turned into a blowtorch.
They used the mummies as human torches and danced around them. Times, Sunday Times
The next thing I knew stentorian voices were to be heard outside, accompanied by high-powered torch beams piercing the shrubbery.
There are no batteries for electrical instruments like torches, ophthalmoscopes and laryngoscopes.
Torches guttered in iron sconces set about the cavern and cabinets emerged at bizarre angles from ancient columns of stone etched with unnatural runes.
After dark he will not move a yard from his camp without a flaring torch of paper bark, a fiery aspersorium for the scaring of the "debil-debil. Confessions of a Beachcomber
This talented five-piece pours a sweet and sultry mix of original torch melodies with a twist of crisp and snappy swing sounds.
A colporteur, known to me, when engaged selling Bibles in a Brazilian town, reports that the fanatical populace got his books and carried them, fastened and burning, at the end of blazing torches, while they tramped the streets, yelling: "Away with all false books! Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America
Beigel, in Virchow's Archives, mentions a cryptorchid of twenty-two who had nocturnal emissions containing spermatozoa and who indulged in sexual congress. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
The boiler came on with a burp and a quiet roaring, startling the misshapen shadow behind the torch. THE LAST RAVEN
This condition, called cryptorchidism, is known to be a risk factor for poor semen quality and a greater risk of testicular cancer. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
As a 10-year-old kid Pauline used a stolen acetylene torch to decapitate the globe of a gumball machine.
The light from the torches played across her face as she drifted into slumber.
Then he picked up the Grail, holding the torch to illuminate it, looking at it properly now. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
Tonight, as the body of Pope John Paul II lies in state, the world continues to mourn this remarkable man, a torch-bearer of peace and a bridge-builder between faiths, someone who inspired so many.
Sometimes for comic effect — loved how Santana's hilariously torchy "Trouty Mouth" ode to Sam was briefly trending on Twitter — but more frequently for overdue emotional payoff, because as Mr. Shue says, "The greatest songs are about hurt. Matt's TV Week in Review
Her spiked bracers glint in the dim torchlight and her silver chaukrum reflect the light onto the walls.
Hymen blew his torch out, put it into the cupboard for use on a future day, and exchanged his garish saffron-coloured robe for decent temporary mourning. The Newcomes
My portion of braised veal trotters seemed to have been overbraised by a week or two, and the lamb sausages tasted faintly of gas, as if they'd been blasted with a blowtorch.
Now light your torches, and come along. The Princess and the Goblin
She spent part of the night tending to bleeding soldiers by torch light in a fi eld tent. Times, Sunday Times
Shine the torch on the lock while I try to get the key in.
The authors calculate that the risk of testicular cancer is approximately 5 percent in cryptorchid boys with intra-abdominal testes, abnormal external genitalia or an abnormal karyotype.
Green laser module 300mw (IR filtered) power test under 22 celsius degree it is test under 22 celsius degree. once the module inner temperature get to 33~36 degree. our module will be high efficiency on the outpower. moreover, if you put our module into your torch housing or have it cooled in properly, its outpower will be stable longer time up to 5 minutes. WN.com - Articles related to Delhi still battling heat wave
Davin slid his Torchwood keycard into the lock and the door opened with a soft click. Hunger Moon: Chapter Sixteen
Each carried a whip and flaming torch with which to chivy both mortal offenders and recalcitrant gods.
They came with lights and they came with torches. Christianity Today
It would be very easy to write a very stupid religion-and-Torchwood story; but Minchin confidently takes Gwen and Rhys through matters ecclesiastical, in what for me is the slightly foreign church environment of South Wales. July Books 1) Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
Some of the dissenters, provoked by the police use of tear gas against them, responded by torching Gabriel's house.
When the elephants come, locals light torches and make a din and harry the elephants off. Times, Sunday Times
I like the grassy foliage and orange-yellow torchlike blooms of kniphofia, aka red-hot poker and torch lily.
The rioters burnt buses, barricaded the streets and torched their own houses. Times, Sunday Times
He filled Croaker in on the possible linkup between the Yakuza, Avalon Ltd, Torch and Delacroix. FLOATING CITY
The car was torched where it lay and the convoy moved on. The Times Literary Supplement
If desired , use kitchen blowtorch to lightly brown sabayon and serve immediately.
There are more armed police than normal but it isn't as much as when the Olympic torch was here. Times, Sunday Times
Taiwan should only agree to the torch route on the condition that Taiwan is seen as an international route and not a domestic route and leave it to China to accept or refect this offer...of course China will reject it but this will make China look uncompliant rather than Taiwan and also publicize Taiwan's quest for official independance. IHT: Taiwan Refuses Olympic Torch
Shine your torch into the drawer.
That said, Pop's jam sessions with today's torch-bearers aren't, as one would fear, pathetic indicators of a musical mid-life crisis.
In the overnight rioting, about 100 attackers set fire to Redfern railway station, torched a car and smashed windows.
Retailer Radio Shack said it was also seeing increased demand for two-way radios, emergency batteries and torches.
It was the first time Scots had seen a man in shorts and I was followed everywhere by an angry mob with pitch forks and burning torches.
There were neither lifeboats nor mortar-apparatus in those days, but there were the same willing hearts and stout arms then as now, and in a marvellously short space of time, hundreds of the able-bodied men of the town, gentle and semple, were assembled on these wild cliffs, with torches, rope, &c.; in short, with all the appliances for saving life that the philanthropy of the times had invented or discovered. The Lighthouse
According to police affidavits unsealed two weeks after the fire, other residents told police that McLeod had talked about burning down the building earlier that night and bragged about having "torched" it afterward. TimesArgus.com: Barre/Montpelier Region
Several of them carried burning torches and I had a flash of old horror films, the mob of villagers going after the mad scientist and his monster.
Down below, he could see the single torch beam which illuminated Devlin, the girl and Gilbert.
The new badge comprises of a crown, harp, shamrock, laurel leaf and torch and scales with the cross of St Patrick as a centrepiece.
Despite brilliant daylight outside, we move through the building by torchlight.
Agni araflammed and Mithra monished and Shiva slew as maya-mutras the obluvial waters of our noarchic memory withdrew, windingly goharksome, to some hastyswasty timberman torch-priest, flamenfan, the ward of the wind that lightened the fire that lay in the wood that Jove bolt, at his rude word. Finnegans Wake
She spent part of the night tending to bleeding soldiers by torch light in a fi eld tent. Times, Sunday Times
She spent part of the night tending to bleeding soldiers by torch light in a fi eld tent. Times, Sunday Times
The facts concerning cryptorchidism, that is to say, failure of the descent of the testes in Mammals, seem to show that the hormone of the testis is not derived from semen or spermatogenesis, for in the testes which have remained in the abdomen there is no spermatogenesis, while the interstitial cells are present, and the animals in some cases exhibit normal or even excessive sexual instinct, and all the male characteristics are well marked. Hormones and Heredity
Some were gift-wrapped, others - scissors, torches, nutcrackers - were just in their bubble packs and looked sort of naked in comparison. Times, Sunday Times
But the charm was the entrance of the abbey, where we were received by the dean and chapter in rich robes, the choir and almsmen bearing torches; the whole abbey so illuminated, that one saw it to greater advantage than by {81} day; the tombs, long aisles, and fretted roof, all appearing distinctly, and with the happiest _chiaroscuro_. A Book of English Prose Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools
Natural light seeps through to every sump, and it is magical to drift through the maze of stalactites studded with reflective crystals, the light dancing in the beams of our torches.
He collects me, bearing a torch that doubles as a radio blaring reggaeton, and we walk down the starlit beach. Times, Sunday Times
OK ai as NO ideeyuh wut u guyz is tawkin abowt, but ai is bery glad ai did nawt gro up in the Ewe Ess if dat is teh sorta ting u torcher ur kids wiv! Devil skwerl - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Until we arrive at them, we perceive only a few torches to lighten the darkness, such as the era of Nabonassar, the war between Lacedæmon and Messene; even those epochs themselves are subjects of dispute. A Philosophical Dictionary
Behind her, there was another torch lit and another, until the great room itself was filled with lights and illuminations to bewilder even the lavished of all Romans.
As a 10-year-old kid Pauline used a stolen acetylene torch to decapitate the globe of a gumball machine.
There are shots from the ground of men with blowtorches in surgical masks, while subtitles that plaintively ask, ‘Why are they making me?’
NIAGARA FALLS, NY - Niagara county man, 34-year-old Brad Fisher, is charged with intentionally torching his own home. WIVB TV
‘We had better go and see if anyone's been hurt,’ Cate said, pointing the torch back up towards the bombsite.
All individuals had hypospadias, bilateral cryptorchidism, and evidence of mullerian duct derivatives, which was confirmed by laparoscopy.
The characters are mostly in modern dress, but still fight with swords, even while lighting their way with battery-powered torches.
Toward the edges of the Sun, again, are very brilliant and highly luminous regions, which generally surround the spots, and have been termed _faculæ_ (_facula_, a little torch). Astronomy for Amateurs
Maybe ‘le garcon’ could get round to helping to “fix the dodgy starter sparkly, change the torch batteries and to seeing to whatever neeeds seeing to stop the fuses tripping in the fusebox” instead of boring you silly with his never ending monologues about his interminable poker games? Words of wisdom
Now, Adele, who was once his main squeeze and still carries a torch for him, must convince him to give up his drinking and start swinging the clubs again.
When they reached the small porch, he shone the torch on the bellpush, pressed it. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
A stage hand shone another torch at his microphone stand, and the show continued by torchlight.
The scales had been polished carefully and gleamed from the light of the torches on the walls.
One day I labored in the basement kitchen plucking a hundred pigeons, burning the tougher feathers off with a hand-held torch.
The rustic maiden, slow and sweet in ungrammatical speech, who helps plant corn by day, and makes picturesque the interior of the cabin in the glare of "lightwood" torches by night; turns men's heads and wins children's hearts in Charles Egbert Craddock's tale, _The Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
They blow bellows at them to simulate a strong wind and then light torches to simulate the imagined layer of fire in the sky.
He picked an unlighted torch off the wall and with a simple flick of his finger, ignited it.
He carries a pickaxe in his left hand and holds a lighted torch aloft in his right.
By August 31st, this important literary torch will pass from poet to poet.
A tapas bar owner planned to kill two of his staff and then torch the building, Birmingham crown court heard. Times, Sunday Times
The revolutionary committee building had been torched. Times, Sunday Times
The winged crocodile was kicked into the closet, after it were hurled the thunder machine and the lightning torch, and after them clattered the cups and the silver rundlet. The Dragon of Wantley His Tale
A number of priests and nuns were killed, and churches and convents were torched.
Groups of men overturned and set fire to vehicles, torched a small factory and tried to stop fire engines from reaching the blaze. Times, Sunday Times
We must not let the burning torch of socialism go out.
I think I may give the Victorian tear-jerkers a miss from now on, though, and turn to some good, sigh-raising Torch Songs.
Ranchers help prime the sprawling pastures by torching them to burn out prairie brush, clearing the way for stands of big bluestem and other grasses that are cheap cattle feed. Range Fires Ignite Dispute
The mold must be preheated with a blowtorch to keep the silver from solidifying before it fills the whole cavity.
They wander a bit about the Americana atlas, exploring some of the jazzier and torchier climes: imagine the NashvilleScene.com
The torch relay resumed at a container port in eastern China's seaport city of Ningbo.
The names usually refer to the tall flowering spike which in medieval times was dipped in tallow and set aflame as a torch in the evening.
The mob in reaction burst in and set the torch to the structure.
Suddenly the beam of an electric torch was flashed into his face.
‘Yeah and everyone just happens to have a blowtorch lying around the house,’ Alexander added, finally able to regain control.
A big rubber thing with a beam like a broadsword and a pencil torch.
Usually a lot of boiling takes care of the problem, but in the most extreme examples, knives with wooden handles have to be thrown out and ovens have to be cleaned with a blowtorch.
Then they went to the pit, and planted the torches there before stepping backward to their appointed places.
Witnesses saw the haul being transferred to another vehicle before the van was found torched. The Sun
Known as the “Statue of Libby,” she carried one of the smokiest torches of American music hall society in the 1920s and 1930s, and was the inventor of the strapless evening dress. Libby Holman.
Coming to men with the Circean torch of licentiousness in her hand, with fair promises of freedom, she first stupefies the conscience, and brutifies the affections; and then renders her votaries the most abject slaves of guilt and crime. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
My name in torchlights at the Dionysia Amphitheater. Artemis the Brave
The second disc in the set includes some wonderful, previously unreleased performances that include “St. Louis Blues,” “Pennies From Heaven,” a torchy “You Go To My Head,” plus “Blue Rondo” and “Take Five” on stage as well. Buzzine » CD Spins
Two servants came by to light up the surrounding torches.
The favorite pastime on this Hawaiian vacation was torching doobies and staring out at the horizon for hours on end.
Within moments of the 6ft torches being thrown on to the deck, the longboat was consumed in flames.
By 5pm that day, after Mayday calls went unanswered, they were forced to abandon ship, torching the wheelhouse as a last-ditch smoke signal and praying it would be seen.
The burglar shone his torch into the dark room.
We use the heat produced by the burning of acetylene in the flame of the oxyacetylene torch to make welds.
The 22-year-old lost her way without a torch and vanished over the edge as she returned from the public loos. The Sun
The British swarmed into the capital and put most public buildings to the torch. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
The fire torched more than 200,000 acres in two weeks. The Sun
She pulled out a small torch and shone the light into Collette's eyes.
I watched one (in fab rain boots and a minidress; why didn't I think of that?) snuggle close, cup her palms around the tiki torch, then coo as Garrett got it to light.
‘I should prefer to consider the artists as discarnate torch-bearers, with no civic existence whatsoever.’
Another important during the Torch Festival is a wrestling match.
This was the institution of mysteries, with hierophants (chief priests) and torch-bearers complete.
His assistants support the vessel, and use blowtorches to keep it warm.
His brown shoulder length hair was thinning at the scalp and his skin seemed pale and sickly in garish torchlight.
They lit a torch and set fire to the chapel's thatch.
Imperial processions were vast, with drummers, trumpeters, attendants carrying torches and many more.
And so we poured gas down every cavernous hole we found, and then exploded them with torches, setting the caves on fire like raw infernos.
He is married with four children, one of whom, Zoe, has picked up the educational torch and is now a teacher in Chiseldon.
Suddenly she hands me her torch and wonders off into the thick inky blackness of night.
Rescuers used welding torches to cut the track. The Sun
Caroline and Sara went down into the vault with Talmegar leading the way, carrying a torch with which he lit the other torches along the wall.
They will circumambulate the stadium once and then take the torches to the cauldron.
The midfielder is not exactly carrying a torch for his old manager but, for all the woe in his time in Scotland, he says he was a fan and still is.
I read about hyperadrenocorticism and feminizing testes and something called cryptorchidism, which applied to me. Middlesex
A big bonfire and torchlight lit the night sky as the team made their way on to the open trailer.
The presentations represented a symbolic passing of the torch from one generation to the next.
The centre of Paris has largely been spared the violence in suburbs around the capital and other cities, including the torching of thousands of cars and arson attacks on schools, kindergartens, gymnasiums and public buildings.
When the pig had wheezed its last breath, one man singed off its hair with a blowtorch, another gave it what I can only describe as a post-mortem enema, and its owner, a middle-aged man with a thick mustache, began to butcher it. NYT > Home Page
It glowed like a muffled torch and stretched upward to a dizzy height toward the zenith. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
Another six people were arrested in protests around Olympia as the torch's progress was impeded by demonstrators lying in front of cars. Times, Sunday Times
Holly brought up at Superbowl Guy's torch how, if it weren't for his peptalk to her, she'd have quit the game way back in the first week. Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens: Fetuses Gone Wild!
Five wicks create a tall flame like a blow torch which makes a soft roaring noise.
Benjamin Haskell, 24, was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison for his role in torching the Macedonia Church of God in Christ in Springfield, Mass. Hate-crimes enforcement on rise, reflecting administration priorities
There are more armed police than normal but it isn't as much as when the Olympic torch was here. Times, Sunday Times
Within, the air was full of the rich scent of seasoned timber and the resiny smoke of torches, and the subdued murmur of voices among the lower tables fell silent as the three of them entered, Canon Meirion leading. His Disposition
Vedanta and KCM, being the good partners they have proved, should be torch-bearers in helping realise such a dream.
The only light in the small room was from the flare of the torches set around the crannog outside. Dark Moon of Avalon
Another six people were arrested in protests around Olympia as the torch's progress was impeded by demonstrators lying in front of cars. Times, Sunday Times
This large database has allowed physicians and researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to gain a deeper understanding of the cryptorchid testis and its impact on future fertility and cancer. Pediatric Andrology Program and Research
For years it seemed this talented tunesmith would continue to carry the torch for genuinely genius grunge guitar pop.
He felt cold and damp, but was comforted to see the twinkle of torchlight in the distance.
Torches soaked in kerosene, ready to burn my house down? TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS FOR NOVEMBER 18TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
The torch mark's flames gradually evolve into a perfect star symbolizing each athlete's pursuit of excellence.
Her eyebrow had received the blow from the torch and had begun to throb; she could feel a trickle of blood.
The backlight from the torch cast odd shadows across his face. LORD OF THE SILENT
Torch , Mirror , Sewing Kit , Lint Brush, Nylon Bags, Wallet, Telephone Accessories Telecommunication Equipments.
They had caught a glimpse of the landing stage and set down there, perhaps beaconed in by the torch left in the hut, which meant they no longer hunted by scope-or they would have known that for a decoy. Dark Piper
Startled by the torchlight, their shallow caprine eyes gazed back in fear and incomprehension at the source.
The world continues to mourn this man, a torch-bearer of peace and a bridge-builder between faiths.
Picking up the torch of the golden age, the CFL proves that a sports league where no one is in it for the money can thrive in an entertainment-jaded age.
If necessary the number may be reduced to only two torchbearers and thurifer, or even just the thurifer alone.
Last night it was still not clear whether the group had had a torch, but there are a series of notices on the cliff-top path warning of a steep drop.
However, well-known Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar will be carrying the Olympic torch writesenga. areaand adds: India: Tibet, the Olympic Torch and the Dalai Lama
Bernice ran forward into the darkness, her torch beam bobbing in front of her.
Without another word or look, Michael grabbed one of the pieces of wood and made a torch out of it.
A shrine where saints and scholars met And held aloft the torch of truth Lies smouldering 'neath fair Brabant's skies, A ruined heapwar's prize in sooth 1 The Pilates of Teutonic blood That fired the brand and flung the bomb Now wash their hands of evil deed, While all the world stands ghast and dumb. Belgium and the Belgians
In the gloom men moved about holding torches like human glow worms. COVER STORY
Observe the gleam of the soldiers' swords by the light of the torches used for illumination and setting villages ablaze.
He was completely entombed in the concrete, but we made a hole in the concrete and shone a torch in and he grabbed the torch.
The first stage of the Adolf-666 fell away in the subfreezing black sky above the Atlantic Ocean, with the gunshot bangs of the explosive bolts, the scream of tortured exospheric oxy-nitrogen on hypersonic aluminum, and the roar of the modified A4 upper stage's ethyl alcohol/liquid oxygen engine electrically ignited and blasting like a blowtorch from Hell. MIND MELD: The Best Spaceships in Written Science Fiction
The day's spectacular events were climaxing with a torchlit procession and a floodlit battle in the shadow of Clifford's Tower.
This would leave healthy working people to carry the torch for human civilization in a world without gravity. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
At once, the torch end erupted into flame, and he began to move forward, pushing roughly through the crowd.
The seven companions were left in silence - the only light stuttering from oily torches in brackets along the walls, as there were no windows.
Before the advent of propane torches, acetylene, or gasoline blowtorches, jewelers used an alcohol flame and a small blowpipe to direct and intensify the heat where they needed it.
Think of the Olympic torch relay. Times, Sunday Times
Suddenly a bright light, fire in fact, flared in front of her face, and a torch was lit.
The two turned resolutely toward Olympic stadium and Mephistopheles, the torch held high, rode in woozy disbelief as they carried him to his destiny. Clarification
He uses green timber, and works as a sculptor, with chainsaws and blow torches, celebrating the grain of the wood.
Keyla took the bag and turned her backs to the two; red hair flaming like the fires of the torch.
This glittering cabaret-style musical shakes up Shakespeare with tap dances, torch songs, tuxedos, sequins and side-splitting sketches.
Reuters reported that Chinese officials are upset by reports April 10 that Tibet protesters attempted to attack Jin Jing, a Paralympics fencer and Olympics torch bearer who uses a wheelchair, but China has embraced her as a hero for protecting the torch. Disabled Olympic torch bearer attacked in Paris becomes hero in China
The novice wreck diver will not be spooked, as no torch is required inside much of this wreckage.
The insistence on the exclusion of English has become, as of now, a sort of status symbol, a touchstone of supremacy and learning, to many of our linguistic torch-bearers, not to speak of their avowed predilection for regionalism.
Groves of old-growth lodge-pole pine and aging spruce fir exploded into flame like toothpicks be-fore a blowtorch.
So, amid fairytale fire torches and twinkling candles, we were led to our very own reindeer sleigh in the middle of an enchanted snow forest. The Sun
He came face to face with a man who shone a torch in his face.
Dazzled, the dayfly flutters round your wick, crackles, flares and cries: I bless this torch! Hustler of culture
He swept the torch beam round the short passage and saw the two cell doors on his left were ajar.
This is a shiveringly good read, especially by torch, in a tent. Times, Sunday Times
Two of the torches that illumined the battlements had been doused there, swathing the crenellations under a cloak of darkness. THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD
The coin gleamed fat and yellow in the light from the torches. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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