How to Use torchbearer in a Sentence

torchbearer

noun
  • He became the torchbearer for civil rights.
  • So does see now herself as the torchbearer for the next wave of swimmers?
    — Aleks Klosok, CNN, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Nick Gilbert was one of the eight torchbearers who helped light a 26-foot-tall menorah.
    — Bisma Parvez, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Days later, the Red Dirt torchbearers are making good on their word.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Burnham, like the Klingon Voq, is her own sort of torchbearer.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2017
  • The identity of the final torchbearer has yet to be announced.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 July 2024
  • King, who for all these years has been a prime torchbearer for female empowerment in sports, made her disgust plain.
    — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 25 June 2022
  • Still, Strick isn’t really looking at himself to be a sort of torchbearer.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 7 June 2023
  • His Grammy wins serve as a reaffirmation of his role as a torchbearer for the culture.
    — Janeé Bolden, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Later, the masked torchbearer discovered that the Mona Lisa has been stolen — again.
    — Glynn A. Hill, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
  • The song became his fifth chart-topper and added further mystique to the Red Dirt torchbearers.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2024
  • More than one torchbearer for the Beijing Winter Olympics is causing a stir.
    — Tiffany Ap, Quartz, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Those players are the next torchbearers for the franchise — just as Greene and Torkelson once were only a few short years ago.
    — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • He was admired in Memphis as a torchbearer to the city's rap legends, Three 6 Mafia.
    — Adrian Sainz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2021
  • He was admired in Memphis as a torchbearer of the city's rap legends, Three 6 Mafia.
    — Adrian Sainz, ajc, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Kulechov is one of DeFi’s torchbearers.
    — Ben Weiss, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2025
  • American rapper Snoop Dogg will be one of the final torchbearers of the Olympic flame.
    — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 24 July 2024
  • From a soaring skyscraper to the wide span of a bridge, landmarks and buildings around the world are often called upon as torchbearers of grief after mass tragedies.
    — Christine Hauser, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
  • The United States must continue to be a beacon of hope and a torchbearer of democracy.
    — Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Since then, torchbearers in uniforms have been carrying the flame through Greece, Monaco and France.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2024
  • Williams, the four-time Olympic gold medalist, was a torchbearer at the Olympics' opening ceremony.
    — Susan Baek, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Boss Morris may be the flashiest torchbearers for modern Morris dancing, but others are waiting in the wings.
    — Genevieve Marks, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Ahrens shepherded the Kolache Shoppe for more than 40 years, waiting for the right torchbearer.
    — Elisabeth Carroll Parks, Chron, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Some are calling Ocasio the new torchbearer for the far left of the Democratic Party.
    — Fox News, 28 June 2018
  • Children crowded the sidewalks to wave little Chinese flags as torchbearers carried the Olympic flame through the streets.
    — Time, 30 June 1950
  • Snoop also served as a torchbearer for the Olympic flame ahead of the Opening Ceremony.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2025
  • This is a call to action for mothers to be the torchbearers of change, the advocates for justice and equality, and the defenders of our heritage.
    — Essence, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Jin also served as a torchbearer during the Paris Summer Olympics in July.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Were you introduced to his music through his millennial indie torchbearers?
    — Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Afterward, the torchbearer reappeared to lead viewers through the halls of the Louvre, the famed museum at the heart of Paris.
    — Glynn A. Hill, Washington Post, 26 July 2024

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