Sentence examples for torch about from inspiring English sources

Marbury and the other runners will each carry the torch about a quarter of a mile over a 34-mile route winding through the five boroughs.

The London production is Fury, her updated take on Medea, while her Edinburgh premieres are Torch, about womanhood, and Epic Love and Pop Songs, about teenage friendship.

Begin by holding the torch about 4 inches (10 cm) away from the joint, moving it constantly in small circles to ensure even heating of all components.

Two days later, on April 28, a dozen masked men with guns, grenades and daggers attacked the village of Soya, near Ambon, torching about 30 homes and a church and killing 14 Christians.

This is a literary torch song, about a parent looking on in impotent agony as their child self-destructs.

On Friday morning, taking the torch at about 6.30am, she expected Stranraer's streets to be packed with well-wishers.

The torch was about to be passed, from one barkeep and restaurant owner to another, from the older generation to the younger.

Before closing up shop for the evening, Mr. Ford, squinting again through his Didymium glasses and reigniting his hand torch, went about the business of attaching a glass base to the stem of a goblet.

And certainly only Brooks could make the city of Tacoma (in a song of the same name) seem like a iconic final destination in a full-flame torch song about a man out-driving his heartbreak.

The torch, soaring about 306 feet above the foundation, has been closed since 1916, when German saboteurs blew up a munitions depot at the nearby Black Tom Wharf in New Jersey.

Gay life was lived entirely on the margins back when Harvey Fierstein wrote and starred in "Torch Song Trilogy," about a drag queen searching for love and his own kind of family.