How to Use torchlight in a Sentence

torchlight

noun
  • The men worked by torchlight.
  • Hollow-eyed doctors and nurses work in torchlight in a health system that is on its knees.
    — CBS News, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Repairs are carried out by torchlight, giant sandbags shielding what still works.
    — Derek Gatopoulos, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Has veracity become one of those quaint relics of a bygone era, like straw boaters and torchlight parades?
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Part of the compound, the Beach Cafe is waterfront dining by torchlight.
    — Tracey Minkin, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Inside the passage, the lips of water beyond my torchlight are coal black, stippled with freckles of sediment.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Afterward, a torchlight parade will light up the mountainside, with a fireworks finale.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The skeletal remains of Captain James Purdie appear in the frame of torchlight.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Events happen across town and all four ski hills — snow sculptures, fat biking, fireworks, ice skating, torchlight parade, and even a canine fashion show.
    — Heather Balogh Rochfort, The Know, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Thus would a medieval liege lord have accepted obeisance from his vassals; all that was missing was the flicker of torchlight and the haunch of venison turning on its spit.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
  • In the 1970s its workers built roads in Saudi Arabia, often at night by torchlight.
    — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The main hatch is already open, a small mercy for my purposes, and my torchlight shines back on a wooden ladder, paint worn in the centre of each rung where the crew’s footsteps buffed it away.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
  • In spite of Prohibition, corks were popped and people celebrated with torchlight parades, police and fire sirens, and car horns.
    — Nancie Clare, Los Angeles Magazine, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Jurors saw two contrasting images of Spencer, who led the torchlight march the night before the rally, in the courtroom on Thursday.
    — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
  • But the colonists also engaged in a certain amount of animal behavior—vandalism, rioting by torchlight, work with tar and feathers.
    — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 6 July 2018
  • Ukraine’s far-right nationalists, meanwhile, prefer black balaclavas and torchlight rallies.
    — Sophie Pinkham, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2020
  • The cobblestone streets and Colonial holiday traditions like caroling by torchlight and a gun-salute display make this spot a must for any history buff.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Mark your calendar for the New Year’s Eve torchlight parade and fireworks to welcome 2020.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2019
  • The two have decided to incorporate this into the game mechanics – if Simian fails to stay inside the torchlight, he’ll be erased out of existence.
    — Mary Jane Irwin, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2007
  • Navigating the near pitch-black venue, guests were ushered by torchlight past opulent green-gold brocade curtains, setting the stage for a show steeped in sensuality and intrigue.
    — Thomas Adamson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2024
  • At the end of 2021, a group of night poachers in a Mozambique national park—using torchlight to blind antelopes—were suddenly the ones left stunned in the dark.
    — Andy Jones, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The trip ended with an evening cruise aboard a private pontoon; the camp's flickering torchlight is the only thing that distracts from the soundlessness of the riverine realm after the sun sets behind the ancient jackalberries.
    — Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Throughout the entire film, the light in the characters’ eyes, too… the Infinity Castle movie is a work of art that makes abundant use of torchlights and illumination.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2025
  • That evening, to commemorate the landmark amendment, thousands marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in a torchlight procession.
    — Smithsonian, 24 Oct. 2017
  • That night after dinner at a table in the sand—harira soup, shakshuka, and orange salad with orange-blossom water—the two Mohameds and the cook pulled out musical instruments and played in the torchlight.
    — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The dedication came on the heels of a massive torchlight parade that began on the steps of the University of Havana Saturday night and flowed through the streets of the capital.
    — Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Richard Spencer, the lead organizer for the August 11 torchlight rally, asked if Romero recognized him at either the tiki torch rally or the demonstrations the next day.
    — Mark Morales and Ralph Ellis, CNN, 29 Oct. 2021
  • In August, Spencer led a coalition of white supremacists in a torchlight march across the University of Virginia campus that touched off a weekend of deadly clashes, killing one.
    — Angela Helm, The Root, 8 Oct. 2017
  • But as transporting as these embellishments are, we are held even more powerfully by the sheer force of Roman’s narration, by the glow of the torchlight on the faces of his captive audience and by their vigorous responses to each new twist and turn.
    — Justin Chang Film Critic, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021
  • For months doctors at the last functioning hospital in the wartorn Sudanese city of el-Fasher performed operations by torchlight, desperately trying to save lives in the most impossible conditions.
    — NPR, 30 Oct. 2025

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