blowtorch

Left behind on the street outside the Louvre was the truck, a jerry can, a blowtorch, angle grinders, a walkie-talkie and yellow vests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

That was the assumption, at least, until Wednesday, when Moss took a blowtorch to those plans, scorching Louisville for 372 yards and six scores that shattered both USC and Holiday Bowl touchdown records.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

Flambéeing is a technique that involves the use of a blowtorch to light food.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2023

“The wind was so terrible it was just like a blowtorch, and once we would get certain areas put out it would just reignite,” she said.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2023

I’d broken one before, when I fell off my skateboard a few years before, and that felt like somebody had a blowtorch to my gut.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

Firefighters were eventually forced to melt it down after fans attempted to thaw the sculpture with blowtorches and chip away at it with sledgehammers.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

Employees told firefighters that work was being performed on the roof earlier that day and that roofers had been using blowtorches to melt down material, according to reporting from KTLA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

Renaldo said workers were using blowtorches on the building’s exterior before the fire and that heat may have transferred through brick or mortar to the interior and ignited paper or other combustibles.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2023

A similar technique called flame-weeding, which involves outfitting tractors with blowtorches, is still a little too volatile for widespread adoption in the United States.

From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2021

He climbed a set of concrete steps to a higher floor where people worked on rebar with blowtorches.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste