Sentence examples for a torch in a dark from inspiring English sources

He holds each one aloft, like a torch in a dark cave; the camera zooms in on the monkey as he peers around the room, chewing his fries in fits and starts.

The Microsoft team says it wanted to use the reflective intensity of infrared light as something like a cross between a sonar signal and a torch in a dark room.

Light a torch in a semi dark room and make your own shadow play, or even show her how the light runs around and blinks.

His presence alone lit up our dark flat – it was like someone was shining a torch in a pitch-black cave.

The negative publicity continues: this month an estate-agent in Colorado died after being tased, and a policeman in Dallas was accidentally tased by his girlfriend, who mistook the device for a torch in the dark.

The internal speaker on the Wiimote rang occasionally and talked to you like a possessed phone, while the pointer on screen acted as a torch in darker areas.

It is our torch in a thick, dark forest.

Attracted by the story it appears to tell – most of all by the connection with Mandela – commentators have rushed to portray the book as a potent symbol of intellectual freedom, a burning torch in the dark, affirming Shakespeare's centrality to the fight in apartheid's most notorious penitentiary.

For on Thursday June 21 in London, a group of people are going to take a stand for their principles in a way that involves real courage, admirable courage, and which at the same time lights a torch of hope in a dark quadrant of the world's affairs.

During the Rwandan genocide he found himself walking 11 miles down a road full of anti-personnel mines in the dark, unable to use a torch in case he was shot at.

Dr. Igbokwe arrived and shined a torch in my eyes.