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• I used my torch to light the way home through the woods in the night.From the entry light
• When the bath overflowed, the downstairs lights fused, so we need a torch.From the entry fuse
• You have to torch up the knife blade to dab this hash oil.From the entry torch up
• The beginner of the games lit the ceremonial torch.From the entry beginner
• The torch beam played around the room.From the entry play
• The torch was passed from hand to hand.From the entry pass
• We put down torches to stop creepers from spawning.From the entry spawn
• I could do with a torch, if you've got one.From the entry could do with
• They torched up a creme brulee for Table 3.From the entry torch up
• Torch it down, boys, burn the whole thing down!From the entry torch down
• (He's probably shining a torch through his veins and drinking Domestos.2021 January 5, Lenny Henry, Marcus Ryder, Access All Areas: The Diversity Manifesto for TV and Beyond, Faber & Faber, →ISBN. From the entry Domestos
• Diggy switches off his torch and leaps into the driver's seat, saying, "All aboard the Diggy-mobile!"2017, Sophie Hannah, Keep Her Safe: A Novel, HarperCollins, →ISBN. From the entry club car
• The patroler held his torch high and Viriathus spotted him from a safe distance.2016, Gusme Bonomi, Otis: True Sea Monsters, Lulu Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN. From the entry patroler
• Deciduous or evergreen, especially in mild climates, torch lilies are tough and long lasting.2015 January 22, Ruth Rogers Clausen, Thomas Christopher, Essential Perennials: The Complete Reference to 2700 Perennials for the Home…. From the entry torch lily
• The Bosnian Serbs carried the torch for these dreams of independence.2013, Paul Ham, “Meanwhile, in Bosnia-Herzegovina”, in 1914: The Year the World Ended, North Sydney, N.S.W.: William Heinemann, →ISBN…. From the entry Bosnia-Herzegovinian
• In Dianjiang county, Sichuan, a team of eleven people went around torching hundreds of straw huts.2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 53. From the entry Dianjiang
• The dim light of a wall torch flashed upon the steel.2010, Donna Russo Morin, The Secret of the Glass, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 301. From the entry shink
• Her yellow-red eyes reflected the torches on either side of her throne.2010, Alexandra Livingston, Defy the Gods, page 8. From the entry yellow-red
• Torch Lily (Kniphofia) Set off floral fireworks with torch lily's towering spikes.2010 December 28, Better Homes & Gardens, Better Homes & Gardens Perennial Gardening, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 269. From the entry torch lily
• Torch the land, insert a queer talent for painmaking, mental anguishizing.2007, S. R. Osborn, Song of Earth, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry painmaking
• Lachey, for his part, seems to still carry a torch for his estranged wife.2006 April 20, Jeannette Walls, “Are Simpson and Lachey still in love?”, in msnbc.com, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2006. From the entry carry a torch
• Filomeno uses a torch to toast several crèmes brûlée, the final desserts of the night.2001, March: Cincinnati Magazine, volume 34, № 6, page 177. From the entry crèmes brûlée
• You can bestow keys, gems, torches and powders, and restore gold, food and hit points.1984, InCider: The Apple II Magazine, volume 2, Peterborough, N.H.: IDG Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60. From the entry hit point
• They struck the doors with their riflebutts, and crept past the window with their pocket torches.1961, Theodor Schieder, Documents on the expulsion of the Germans from Eastern-Central-Europe, volume 1, page 262. From the entry riflebutt
• One explosion followed another as the gray sunbeaten cabins burned like torches.1961, A. A. Gallen, The Wetback, page 45. From the entry sunbeaten
• Brunhilde, a kind of earth-mother goddess, carries a torch for her lost love.1955 June 6, “Books: Mixed Fiction (review of The Twelve Pictures by Edith Simon)”, in Time, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2013. From the entry carry a torch
• Not a rushlight, nor a stinking torch nor quarion would be lighted.1950, Westcott, Jan, The Hepburn, page 178. From the entry quarion
• It is surmounted by a bas-relief of a winged boy holding an inverted torch.1938, “1788: Piety Weeping at the Tomb of Benevolence, a Model of a Monument to be Erected in Whitechapel Church, to the Memory of Dr…. From the entry putto
• Having grabbed the torch from the first wave of Brooklyn drill's innovators, Fivio Foreign is all about the genre's future.2022 May 20, “Brooklyn Drill Has Never Been Hotter. Can It Rise Above the Violence?”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media…. From the entry zaza
• A HIIT routine can torch more calories than a traditional endurance workout while being performed in a shorter amount of time.2022 November 27, Melanie Radzicki McManus, “Try this interval workout to avoid HIIT burnout or injuries”, in CNN, archived from the…. From the entry HIIT
• The backward() function uses PyTorch's automatic differentiation package, torch.autograd, to differentiate and compute gradients of tensors based on the chain rule.2021, Joe Papa, PyTorch Pocket Reference, page 48. From the entry chain rule

Meaning of torch

1. noun A stick of wood or plant fibres twisted together, with one end soaked in a flammable substance such as resin or tallow and set on fire, which is held in the hand, put into a wall bracket, or stuck into the ground, and used chiefly as a light source.
2. noun A similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material; specifically, a pole with a lamp at one end.
3. noun A flower which is red or red-orange in colour like a flame.

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How do you use torch in a sentence?

Torch is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The mob of angry villagers carried torches and pitchforks to the vampire’s castle.”

What is a short sentence with torch?

“That influencer torched the company’s PR department.”

What does torch mean?

Torch means a stick of wood or plant fibres twisted together, with one end soaked in a flammable substance such as resin or tallow and set on fire, which is held in the hand, put into a wall bracket, or stuck into the ground, and used chiefly as a light source.