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How to use the word torches in a Sentence?

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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. – Yaryna Arieva	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They put me in a tiger chair, they hung us up and beat us on the thigh, on the hips with wooden torches, with iron whips. – Omir Bekali	Found on CNN 2 years ago
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. – Blake Flayton	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Proverbs in conversation are torches in darkness. – Proverb	added by anonymous 4 years ago
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. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We can make resin torches for environmental extremists to use and cut off electricity from their homes. – Prime Minister Hun Sen	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground. – Margaret Mead	added by anonymous 10 years ago

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.

– Yaryna Arieva

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They put me in a tiger chair, they hung us up and beat us on the thigh, on the hips with wooden torches, with iron whips.

– Omir Bekali

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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.

– Blake Flayton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Proverbs in conversation are torches in darkness.

– Proverb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

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.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We can make resin torches for environmental extremists to use and cut off electricity from their homes.

– Prime Minister Hun Sen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.

– Margaret Mead

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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