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torchesnoun
Plural form of torch.
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Torches
A torch is a stick with combustible material at one end, which is ignited and used as a light source. Torches have been used throughout history, and are still used in processions, symbolic and religious events, and in juggling entertainment. In some countries "torch" in modern usage is the term for a battery-operated portable light.
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torches
See Pyrotechny.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of torches in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of torches in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of torches in a Sentence
We would have two hours of electricity, then five hours without electricity, then three hours of electricity, it was really demoralizing, the worst thing about that was that the streets weren’t lit. And not all people use their torches or have [reflective] jackets to be seen on the road. And every week I would see a car crash from my balcony and some people died.
An American Jew is only used to perceiving anti-Semitism as Nazis in Charlottesville carrying tiki torches, or a swastika being spray-painted onto a synagogue wall, or the Christian right saying that Jews killed Jesus Christ. We're not very attuned to and good at recognizing anti-Semitism when it doesn't come from that extreme side of the political spectrum, but we are going to have to get used to it, because that's what's coming here. It's already here.
We can make resin torches for environmental extremists to use and cut off electricity from their homes.
Proverbs in conversation are torches in darkness.
We saw Klansmen and white supremacists and neo-Nazis come out in the open, their crazed faces illuminated by torches, veins bulging, and bearing the fangs of racism, chanting the same anti-Semitic bile heard across Europe in the 30s.
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