torch

Example Sentences

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“As the U.S. industry retreats behind a wall of tariffs and abandoned EV plans, Asia has taken the torch.”

From Los Angeles Times

Games organisers said the delay was caused by "the enthusiasm and the number of people present which slowed down" torch runners.

From Barron's

When the BBC visited Makoko, smoke, from the rubble of torched homes or from fires that people had lit, burning damp wood to dry their clothes, was hanging in the air.

From BBC

When Smith asked the defendant if she knew a Gavin Ford, the grandson of the owner of the house which was torched, or anyone in Ferndale, she said she did not.

From BBC

A military policeman steps out of a small guard’s hut, switching on a torch and pointing it down.

From Literature