Sentence examples for a torch to the from inspiring English sources

When it was all over late at night the lieutenant ordered the soldiers to put a torch to the corpses.

Then she sang "Battle in Me," a stomping, predatory, drunken come-on: "Lets take a torch to the past and the future," she sang.

Now those same baby boomer firebrands who set a torch to the "bourgeois institution" and orange blossom appear to have had a change of mind.

In a typical segment, Bee took a torch to the problem of untested rape kits, describing the crisis in Texas as an episode of "Hoarders: Rape Kit Edition".

As a first stop, he blocked the sale of nearly 13 tonnes of ivory tusks that had been captured from poachers and persuaded President Daniel arap Moi to put a torch to the pile instead.

Every young playwright who sets out to put a torch to the existing world order is bound to burn himself at the start, and Bertolt Brecht was no exception.

The Colgate emblem, remember, is an upraised arm holding a torch to light the path towards the truth.

Place the bread under the broiler or use a torch to brûlée the sugar until it caramelizes.

She also carried a torch to light the way, and a knife to separate the soul at the time of death, as well as for severing the umbilical cord at birth.

You have to look for a long blue wooden fish on the left as you drive along the dirt road towards the Garzón lagoon and then use a torch to find the entrance.

Meanwhile, a man in clerical vestments holds up a torch to reveal the grey feet of a corpse – the final merciful act is a decent burial.