Sentence examples for cauldron lit from inspiring English sources
Photograph: Mark Makela/ ZUMA Press/ Corbis 9.09am BST The gas men cometh: the cauldron lit during the Olympic opening ceremony is temporarily extinguished as it is moved from the centre of the Olympic Stadium to the edge of the south stand.
The flame is a splinter flame taken from the Cardiff cauldron lit on Monday morning.
London's event will see a ceremonial cauldron lit in Trafalgar Square, Belfast's festival will have a lantern procession outside City Hall and a cauldron-lighting outside Stormont.
The image of the lit cauldron was projected on the stadiums rooftop screens during the first week of competition, and live footage was available to all broadcast right holders.
The cauldron was re-lit by Austin Playfoot, who carried the London Olympic torch in 1948 and 2012.
Twelve years later, the Brazilian lit the cauldron in the opening ceremony to begin the Rio Games.
There will be an athletes' parade and a speech by Lord Sebastian Coe, and Thomas Heatherwick's beautiful cauldron, with new copper petals on its stems, will be re-lit using the Paralympic flame.
The Cauldron is culinary.
