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    Use "torch" in a sentence

    torch example sentences

    torch


    torched


    torches


    torching


    1. worst scar was from an accident with a welding torch


    2. By a mixture of lamp and torch light Aunt Billie then conducted him around the seven


    3. "It took them ten years until their shuttlecraft reached the ground, but the surviving crew are all living on the planet below and the nose plate of their derelict old torch is serving as our fabricator mount


    4. Every one became a torch of fire that would not burn out


    5. "And that old torch made it?" he said, seeming to file the previous discussion under 'later


    6. the first guard came past the door without a torch and started down the stairs


    7. He cut off one of the guards’ hands and picked up the torch that was


    8. fire of the torch and onto his enemies


    9. flames of the torch and the guards screamed in pain as Son spat fire upon


    10. Elden carried a torch

    11. Son took a torch and set the wooden fortress on fire


    12. She took a torch and searched the area, but saw no sign but the tracks the thongas had made


    13. David passed the torch


    14. whose eyes danced in the torch song sway of red and white


    15. She lowered the lights and lit a torch beside the table they were next to


    16. switched on his torch out of habit


    17. The doctor put his torch down


    18. "A torch would be slowing at one half gee," Ava and Heymon said at about the same time


    19. "We should have a torch for emergencies like this," Elmore said


    20. If that was the Pink Dawn, it was far enough away that Gordon’s Lamp’s drivewash was probably not as lethal as the leakage from their ancient torch

    21. torch fell on the floor


    22. He lifted the torch back


    23. He held a fire torch in his hand


    24. couldn’t possibly lay down the torch, not when she had so much to


    25. He has no need for a torch


    26. The battery in his torch was low and he needed to conserve it


    27. He desperately wanted to pull out his torch, but he knew that would make their hoods come up and their goggles come down


    28. In a dusty and damp cavern lit only by his own torch, he got down drawer after drawer of sample tickets and thumbed thru them in their thousands, one by one, starting on the first day of the decade when Enjteen was born so he was sure he didn’t miss any


    29. Relief flooded through him as he realised that he could see reasonably well by the light of the moon – he wouldn’t need to use the torch he had purloined – well, not yet at any rate


    30. He turned on his torch, turned his face towards where he thought the road ought to be and stepped off the track onto the moor

    31. The torch gave good light and he made reasonable time for about half an hour, striding across the rough grass and moss, skirting any reeds he came across


    32. Without warning, something skittered in the undergrowth nearby, making him jump horribly, swinging the torch about in a desperate attempt to see what it was


    33. Working blind, he ran his hands over the body of the torch, trying to work out what was wrong with it


    34. It was an expensive rubber covered torch … they were supposed to be able to take being dropped, weren’t they? Again, he tried the switch, but the thing refused to work


    35. They took the bale for that decade to a worktable deep in the center of the space that Ava had to light with her torch


    36. her salvation like a blazing torch


    37. Roman plucked the torch from the ground next to the curtain


    38. Roman heaved the torch like a spear


    39. There was a fitful torch at each end of the stage and a chandelier hanging from the ceiling with five guttering candles to supplement the light from the cups


    40. He was still on the first stairway when his torch went sputter, sputter, pop and profound and utter darkness took hold

    41. There was the barest glimmer of light from a torch in the courtyard


    42. He had to use his own torch to travel these passages, they were musty and full of refuse


    43. The pools of vomit were fairly dry and the wevns were about done with it when his torch sent them chuckling into the cracks


    44. This was too heavy to move so he put up a nice stone torch in there and kept it filled, one of seven lanterns he maintained on that stairway today


    45. He angled his torch that way but saw nothing, if there was someone there he had darted out of sight


    46. Raid camps and put tents and other structures to the torch


    47. Althart had to light his own torch to guide them down a long hall lined with stacks of yellowing records


    48. Flickering torch light illuminated the corpses of varying sizes and builds, and that was about as much as he could discern


    49. “By Hades’ hairy shithole, I will not!” The watchman brandished his torch at Homer,


    50. Nerissa retrieved the torch that the watchman had dropped on the pier














































    1. Most of the women were raped and murdered and those that were left were herded into the Inn with the children and old folk and the Inn had been torched


    2. Steve torched a cig


    3. Already crumbling buildings are pelted with projectiles and then torched, hastening their inevitable collapse


    4. towns were torched and nothing more than smoldering remains


    5. that Zia had melted her wheelchair and torched her daisies?


    6. “Police have found another body in the torched car


    7. Someone torched his house with some nasty little incendiary bomb similar to napalm


    8. His mind had settled the issue; Diego Olivera killed his wife in cold blood then torched his house while his children slept


    9. The Government of Kenya has torched millions of dollars worth of


    10. ����������� ��Then, I would have torched my car, with my equipment inside, and would have shot myself in the head

    11. “This is it? Or did you also arrange to have my car torched?”


    12. once torched a bug with a magnifying glass, only once, way back in the young sierras of


    13. And when the Huns repeatedly plundered and torched parts


    14. down the stairs without getting torched


    15. She took a moment to memorize her features, then torched it with the cigarette lighter in her purse


    16. The Bartletts had settled well to their new life, but were saddened when Bonkers told them that their old farm, which had been in the family for generations, had eventually been torched by the new ‘owners’, the war veterans, who were growing increasingly agitated about their lot


    17. It was torched, not blown up, so it was all very quiet


    18. Reminiscent of their Naokhali barbarity, the Musalman mob torched a railway coach at Godhra in which 58 Hindus, 40 of whom were women and children, had perished; it’s as if these bigots had for inspiration Mahmud’s butchery of the Hindus at Somnath in the same province


    19. ‘I heard this place got torched years ago


    20. if they filled the buildings and torched them, the steel would still be standing

    21. Inserts in furnace oil, torched with Oxygen


    22. I’m sure they’d be happy if we torched the building, but convincing them to go inside will be hard


    23. It was not unheard of that an abolitionist home or business would be torched in the middle of the night by northerners that strongly supported slavery


    24. But the main point of dispute is ingeniously eluded, leaving the impression upon the mind of the hearer that something was proved which was not do much as torched


    25. He’s capable of it, but what about all those other cars that were torched in your neighborhood?”


    26. ” When the last claimants to the torched acreage had been driven out for urban renewal, per Amory—or when the spectacle of the system’s neglect finally galvanized the underclass, per Nicholas—it would be clear whose vision of human nature had won


    27. She hadn’t been out in the van with them since back in August, when they had torched an abandoned church for kicks and she’d drafted a story about it she’d subsequently let Sewer Girl read


    28. The boxes she’d stacked so carefully in the corner—the boxes and boxes of Richard’s things!—had been torched and then soaked, it seemed


    29. “And torched their car


    30. Nearly all of the links led to the same fire, a house outside San Francisco that had been torched four years before

    1. As the guards entered behind him with their torches Son


    2. Many carried torches that shone with a brightness that still hurt Sons’


    3. It was very late in Afternoonday now, more like Duskmeal, but there were plenty of great torches on tall, twisted larorlie pillars to light the way


    4. Fred had turned on torches they had thoughtfully brought with


    5. They were in very urban waters now, torches burned on the piers all along all shores, this close all docks worked round the week


    6. The great torches of the main docks were not quite visible, but their light showed on the faces of the harbor walls


    7. "Look at all the torches," Alan said


    8. The blow torches lit up the dried grass on the entrance of the bank


    9. They stopped throwing torches after that


    10. It was all lit by torches in sconces on the pillars and walls, and by great braziers on the corners of the bull pen

    11. The cheering sounded a lot rowdier than it did from over there, the torches were closer, brighter, and she could feel their heat


    12. Starships changed from mortal frozen-human daedelus torches to Angel-driven bussards, half America’s non-corporate population defected to Laurentia, and Angels and other simulates were granted legal standing


    13. “We have torches,” she said and handed it back


    14. one of the torches


    15. Torches as high as the doorway itself


    16. pulled into port and a young boy was busy lighting torches


    17. On the side of the upper floor they were approaching, the front porch came out to the path like a drawbridge, lit with torches


    18. “Is that right?” He squinted thru the trees and the torches


    19. After the Conchidenabla, this fairyland of flickering torches seemed none too real, he wondered if it was still a scene from within there


    20. The globes melted in flickering flames and a slowly pulsating chord of many octaves circled the room, building with the flickering of the torches the pylons had transformed into

    21. At the end of that passageway was a grate, now open, and the torches of Buthar Industrial Khume


    22. There was a pretty good tape player set up and they had quite a few torches


    23. Flickering torches would have looked better with this than these lanterns, but she played it that way anyway, all the way to playing off into the darkness a hundred floors above before the distance knob finally ran out


    24. There was torrock going on under the torches, but the games weren't as loud or as serious as they had been years ago


    25. By the time they reached the South Harbor Dockwall the torches were lit above the piers


    26. Torches burned, as did the fire pit, but it was scarcely enough light to illuminate the form of a man staggering toward the middle of their camp


    27. Nerissa saw more torches approaching on the street that led down to the pier


    28. Worse, the torches appeared to be gaining steadily on her


    29. down to nothing and the torches gained


    30. They can see us nearly as well as we see them with all their torches blazing

    31. He ran toward the thousands of eyes, torches upon the horizon of darkness


    32. Barrin Iylin found that he had been holding his breath as he looked upon the entrance of the town by the light of faint torches and lamps


    33. Their bodies fell amongst the others, and the streets were red under the flickering torches in the night


    34. After a while the torches were switched off and then the only light was the relaxing, pulsing glow of the heater


    35. It quickly became necessary to switch on the torches so that they could see where they were putting their feet


    36. All they had were their torches, so they had to move cautiously


    37. I’m getting fed up of using torches


    38. “Are there any torches in here?”


    39. Give me two of those torches


    40. He picked up the torches, tucked one into his belt and gripped the other in his hand

    41. They all switched on their torches as they entered the corridor


    42. The group scaled the remaining ladder and surveyed the area around them with their torches


    43. As dusk and then finally dark fell the Military Police with shaded torches chivvied everyone along like demented sheepdogs


    44. not arachnophobic, but the new holders of the torches, large stone spider like creatures with long


    45. “…ouldn’t we just switch on the torches?” a whiny voice


    46. I just don’t see why we can’t switch on our torches


    47. fluorescent bulbs, powered by a series of noisy generators, and flames from torches


    48. Torches and lanterns were lit in the fading light, as well as large campfires, where cooks began to boil stews and prepare spits for roast deer and lamb


    49. Hundreds of torches were lit, while the crowd of nobles, courtiers, captains, citizens, and slaves, went mad with transports of joy, excitement, and rum


    50. Saldon found some old torches and oil in an abandoned building and made light as the sun finally sank below the waves to the west













































    1. He's torching the bastards before they can clear the forest


    2. I thought the wolf corpses, the room of bones, and our forensic evidence would pose us a problem when the police arrived, but Shiki decided to solve that problem by torching the house


    3. We had enough of intruders torching our churches, looting our property, murdering our people, and kidnapping and raping our women and children


    4. Her chest was burning as if flames were torching her body from the inside


    5. near miraculous as far as torching body fat goes and fits


    6. She tried to save others but none would believe until they were standing at the gates torching it


    7. Killings are done by torching, strangulation, or


    8. - MORE THAN 250 FAT TORCHING RECIPES, all designed with metabolic thermo-


    9. Some of the few remaining aid agencies had decided to pull out, and even the ‘war veterans’, who had been quite useless in running the farms they had commandeered, were now leaving their new properties and taking to the streets, in some cases torching the farms before they left


    10. several occasions, death was not complete prior to the torching, as ‘We’re hungry,

    11. The story of that year or so, from Rita’s death to my torching the warehouse, ends there


    12. The burning in Hanor’s chest increased in potency, torching the grief like a


    13. When local vandals learned about the find, they went to the house—which was supposed to be situated right where the hotel is now—killing the wife and children while the husband was away, and stealing all of the gold before torching the place


    14. Justine said, “I’m not saying you’re paranoid, Jack, but I don’t think Tommy, as low as he is, would stoop to torching your car


    15. “You see where this is going? Do you have an exit strategy? I’ve warned you on my blog, and I tried to demonstrate the pernicious nature of greed by torching a few cars


    16. I thought about my brother, that he’d had nothing to do with torching my car


    17. What new target? And what was the point of torching these derelict buildings again? Before he could ask any more questions, though, Nicky had cut the lights and was snapping at S


    18. Torching houses was good for the soul


    19. Two days after the fire, only an hour after my release from the hospital, I was in a police interrogation room, where cops were accusing me of torching my grandmother’s house


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    Synonyms for "torch"

    blowlamp blowtorch torch flashlight aaron's rod common mullein flannel mullein great mullein verbascum thapsus woolly mullein brand ember coal spark

    "torch" definitions

    a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance


    tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches


    a small portable battery-powered electric lamp


    a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame


    burn maliciously, as by arson