Sentence examples for passing a torch from inspiring English sources

"It's like passing a torch.

"Geraldo is passing a torch to me".

They arrived on the premier courts of the United States Open yesterday passing a torch.

As if passing a torch one to the other, they introduce themselves in their own language and talk about the weather on the day of their births.

"Who?" The pair were practically passed a torch when invited on to French & Saunders's bank holiday Radio 2 show last year.

When California passed the DREAM Act, I truly felt like I helped pass a torch of perseverance.

The late Yolanda King, the oldest child, took after her mother in that regard, but Bernice King, the youngest child in the King family, called Long her "new father" and symbolically passed a torch to him.

Dame Mary Peters symbolically passed an Olympic torch to her during the final stages of the three-hour ceremony.

I can recall the precise moment when this message was passed, like a torch, from her soul to mine.

By Kate Julian Leaders of the women's movement pass a torch that was carried from New York to Houston for the National Women's Convention in 1977.

In a show of unity, former President Thabo Mbeki passed a ceremonial centennial torch to Mr. Zuma, his onetime protégé who later turned against him, costing him his presidency.