torch

01. The Vikings had brought [torches] to set fire to the enemy village.

02. The villagers used [torches] to chase the monster back to the castle.

03. When we went camping, we made [torches] using branches dipped in sap from a fir tree.

04. A number of cars were [torched] during the riots.

05. The private homes of the leaders of the dictatorship were [torched] during the coup.

06. Bobby was up until late last night, reading his book under the covers by the light of a [torch].

07. Pass me a [torch]; I want to look under the car.

08. For the 1996 Olympic Games, 10,000 people took turns carrying the Olympic [torch] on its 24,000-kilometer journey from Greece to Atlanta, Georgia.

09. The streets of London, England were lit at night using [torches] until 1807, when gaslights were introduced.

10. A French proverb suggests that the [torch] of love is lit in the kitchen.

11. Ben Sweetland once observed that we cannot hold a [torch] to light another's path without brightening our own.

12. Lucretius once remarked that the generations of living things pass in a short time, and like runners hand on the [torch] of life.

13. Louis Pasteur once stated that science knows no country because knowledge belongs to humanity and is the [torch] which illuminates the world.

14. William Hamilton once suggested that truth is like a [torch]: the more it's shook, the more it shines.