Sentencedict.com
 Directly to word page Vague search(google)
Home > Torch in a sentence

Torch in a sentence

  up(5)  down(1)
Sentence count:163+18Posted:2017-02-13Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: lamplanternlightSimilar words: porchscorchorchardscorchingorchestratemotorcycleforcein forceMeaning: [tɔrtʃ /tɔːtʃ]  n. 1. a light carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance 2. tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches 3. a small portable battery-powered electric lamp 4. a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame. v. burn maliciously, as by arson. 
Random good picture Not show
91. She eased herself into a sitting position and groped for the heavy torch she had placed on the shelf by her bunk.
92. Car headlights made it difficult to see, in the way that an usherette's torch can temporarily blind.
93. He'd never find it, in the dark and without a torch.
94. As her torch toured the room it alighted on an extraordinary sight.
95. He lunched with the police commissioner at a fish restaurant in Torch Bay.
96. John found a torch and shone it at the engine cowling.
97. They gazed into my torch beam like cons caught in razor wire.
98. At intervals I wandered round the camp[sentencedict.com/torch.html], flashing my powerful torch into the darkness.
99. On convertibles, shine a torch down into the well that the hood folds into and check for rust.
100. Poke around any plumbing, lift any loose floorboards and inspect the joists, using your screwdriver and torch.
101. Chick was reading the Evening Telegraph by the light of a torch.
102. He swept the torch beam round the short passage and saw the two cell doors on his left were ajar.
103. I had six dozen smaller ones for the tape recorder and my torch.
104. My torch showed small bubbles in the murky water on the base of the pan.
105. Bernice ran forward into the darkness(sentencedict.com), her torch beam bobbing in front of her.
106. As a 10-year-old kid Pauline used a stolen acetylene torch to decapitate the globe of a gumball machine.
107. This talented five-piece pours a sweet and sultry mix of original torch melodies with a twist of crisp and snappy swing sounds.
108. Gaveston bustled about in the darkness, found a tinder, and a cresset torch flared into life.
109. His hand closed on the torch he kept there as a safeguard against the house's arbitrary lighting system.
110. Blagg had tried a brief smile when Maxim flashed the torch on himself for identification, but didn't speak.
111. Her eyebrow had received the blow from the torch and had begun to throb; she could feel a trickle of blood.
112. Then the river went dark, except the little of it running red by their island in the torch light.
113. He laid the telephone and torch back on the table then probed delicately with the end of a penknife.
114. I pulled on oilskins, clambered forward, and inspected the damage by the light of a hand torch.
115. Pulling a torch from this pocket he played the beam across her prostrate form.
116. It was a photo of a robed woman with a sharp star for a halo and a torch in her upraised hand.
117. Up in the bows, one of the bureaucrats flashed a torch twice, waited five seconds and repeated the signal.
118. I shine my pocket torch on to hundreds of crabs skittering into the sea.
119. But for the heavy torch in the older woman's hand she might have been tempted to make a dash for it.
120. Sun gives light; torch gives light, candle gives light; smiling gives light. Mehmet Murat ildan 
More similar words: porchscorchorchardscorchingorchestratemotorcycleforcein forceenforceby forcedivorceforcefulreinforceexorcismtour de forcefor certainreinforcedenforcementmarchchurchsearcharchedstarchparchedpurchaseanarchymonarchmerchantresearchwar chest
Total 163, 30 Per page  4/6  «first  pre  next  last»  goto
Leave a comment
Welcome to leave a comment about this page!
Your name:
Latest commentsInto the comment page>>
More words