Sentence examples for set a torch from inspiring English sources

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Having killed the Cat Stevens persona, Mr. Islam set a torch to his memory.

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.

But rather than drive off on honeymoon they row a boat out to set a torch to the 10m-high bonfire that blazes into the night.

Lewis Lapham identified the satirist's project as "the crime of arson, meaning to set a torch of words to the hospitality tents of pompous and self-righteous cant".

But, considering the stunning amount of protests over the past weeks in response to the current President's ban (not to mention the whole "deleteUber" thing and the results of that campaign), it seems that banning immigrants is also hot button enough to set a torch at the feet of those who appear to support it.

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Set a handheld soldering torch to a large, soft flame.

If using a torch to bevel the metal, use caution and avoid setting a brass torch tip on a hard surface.

When Georgia is trapped upstairs in an abandoned firehouse searching for documents, the fire set by a torch begins to stalk her.

Instead, Cruz decided to set up a torch in the parish courtyard, not far from where hundreds of children had been dancing to twangy bachata music that afternoon.

Asking his audience to bring their Cat Stevens records, tapes, songbooks and posters to the station, he said he would set a date to put a torch to them.

One group of torch-bearing protesters set a cardboard television on fire.

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