Sentence examples for torch from inspiring English sources
The phrase "torch" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a portable light source, often used in outdoor or emergency situations. Example: "We need to grab a torch before heading into the cave; it will be dark inside."
noun
A stick with a flame on one end, used chiefly as a light source; a similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material.
- The mob of angry villagers carried torches and pitchforks to the vampire′s castle.
There was similar symbolism – the passing of the torch – when in early 2008 Barack Obama won the endorsement of Kennedy's brother, Teddy, and daughter, Caroline: once he had their blessing, Obama looked unbeatable.
Then try doing it in the dark on a five-mile head torch race along some of Cumbria's prettiest forest trails – not that you'll be able to see much of it, of course.
We were dedicated all right: we had waterproofs, a head torch, and some odd-tasting energy bars.
The capacity and willingness to drive people along with the use of the pitchfork of threatened redundancy or the flaming torch of disciplinary action does not make a leader and the mere fact that you so brazenly call yourselves leaders is evidence of the malaise that prompts me to write.
One moment organisers will have been relieved not to relive was when, in 1977, the Queen stood torch in hand ready to light her silver jubilee beacon – and exclaimed: "Look, look.
Since the release of his band Antony and the Johnsons' 2005 album I Am A Bird Now (which chronicled his experiences as a transgender person and was the surprise winner of the Mercury prize, selling upwards of 500,000 copies), there have been many attempts to categorise his sound, ranging from "chamber pop" to "ethereal torch singing".
If you shone a torch at the nearest star and simultaneously fired a Cern particle, the first torchlight would arrive in four years and the accelerated proton less than two seconds later.
His campaign is run by Harry, who works in a bicycle co-operative by day and often turns up to canvassing sessions on his bike wearing a head-torch and no coat.
Hassop Hall Hotel has a special neoclassical elegance, and at the end of its long (and often torch-lit) drive there is the sort of public house that tourists dream about.
Its anti-immigrant rhetoric, swastika-like party emblem and torch-lit parades led by young men in black T-shirts horrify many Greeks.
The torch-bearer But who's answering the phone?
