Sentence examples for like a torch from inspiring English sources

"The head building looks like a torch".

"It shot up in flames like a torch.

He drapes himself across the bench like a torch singer atop a piano.

It is an art which shines like a torch of hope in a troubled world.

* Life, my sister said, is like a torch passed now from the body to the mind.

She has, she says, "taken over his own title, like a torch from a previous runner".

"It's like passing a torch.

Meanwhile, the chatter on Twitter was that it looked more like a cheesegrater than a torch.

To some, it was like the passing of a torch when commissioners were told that the cruise ship industry here had grown by 54percentt in the last year.

In winter's house there's a child asleep in a dream of light that grows out of the dark, a flame you can hold in your hand like a flower or a torch on the street.

But while Dan Shaughnessy writes in The Boston Globe that this looks a lot like a passing of a torch, Israel Gutierrez writes in The Miami Herald that the Heat has stumbled enough this season that it isn't getting comfortable with a 2-0 lead.