Torches Sentence Examples

The torches around the circle were lit.

A sprawling castle with thick walls, an old portcullis, and torches glowing along the walls rose up before them.

Deidre continued through the halls lined with torches bearing black flames.

Torches and lamps were also carried in, religious processions.

The force of the strike knocked everyone off their feet and deadened the firelight, except for the torches in the corners.

Manufacturing from small rechargeable flashlights and torches to very powerful searchlights and floodlights.

Old style canoeing helmets without internal padding with torches held on by elastic.

Let's grab the pitchforks and burning torches and hunt down the foreign killers.

The wall sconces which once would have held large torches to illuminate the space were empty.

The robustly constructed torches are molded in high impact thermoplastic resin for lasting durability and service requirements.

Here, there are many secret doors which may be found in the blank walls which carry torches.

Two flaming torches located in the middle of the bar lead through to a large area with plenty of low level seating available.

If the shower is in the summer, consider a beach-themed party complete with tiki torches and leis.

Moments of Elegance-Pairs of tiki torches stand a foot high and cost around seventeen dollars.

Use tiki torches to surround your reception area.

Evening affairs will benefit from candle centerpieces that provide lighting, like filigree lanterns and table torches.

Consider candles with sturdy hurricane surrounds or tiki torches.

I looked under the desk to see if the little gremlins inside the router were flashing their torches at me, they were.

Spanish dancers were spotted, and the obligatory extinguishing of torches revealed copious luminescence.

This is not a congenial creature in the Disney mold but an utterly terrifying monster with jagged teeth and eyes which blaze like torches.

Flaming torches are romantic looking and photograph well, too.

If using tiki torches, make sure they are spaced far enough away any greenery or fabric you used to reduce the risk of fire.

Did they not know that it is the other contestants whose torches were previously extinguished that end up choosing the winner?

They can be light strings, torches, or even underwater lights.

As riders draw closer to the boarding platform, they are surrounded by tribal masks, 40 foot high burning torches, and other exotic theming that sets the mood for this challenging ride.

On a certain task, I needed to light some torches in order to unlock a giant door.

I looked everywhere for these torches, and for some reason I just couldn't find them.

It never occurred to me that the torches would be so high up!

Use water in any way possible, including extinguishing torches and filling empty buckets.

He advised the people to put up red paper decorations on their windows and doors, light torches and make loud noises like fire crackers to scare away the beast.

You can enhance this experience by putting up some tiki torches, lighting candles or making a fire in a fire pit.

Today's beadmakers generally use flameworking torches to create lovely lampwork beads that can be used to make attractive accessories.

If you've got a mosquito problem on your hands, rent some bug zappers or citronella torches.

Add an island feel to your pool party by decorating with Hawaiian-themed accessories like tiki torches, bamboo accents and tropical flowers.

If you don't want to throw a party that is that fancy, you can stick with the bare bones rooms and outdoor areas you have, perhaps adding little festive touches like tiki torches.

If your party is outside you are going to want to get some Tiki torches.

Tiki torches, grass skirts, and hula dancing can be fun options for a pool luau.

Make bug spray available to party guests, and consider burning citronella candles and/or tiki torches with citronella liquid to cut down on unwanted critters.

Keep your party separated by sectioning it off with a tent or tiki torches.

Be sure to decorate with lots of tropical flowers, fake palm trees, grass skirts, tiki torches, coconuts and leis.

Decorative palm trees and tiki torches will help set the mood.

The baking team constructs desserts with blow torches.

The storm beating against the windows had shut down the power; the hall was lit by candles and makeshift torches.

She continued to laugh, "Don't you worry that news will spread, and the townspeople will come after you with torches and stakes?"

Beyond the iron wall sliding away was a small portcullis, which stood between him and a small stone chamber with ensconced torches.

There was one exit at the far end of the arena opposite the warlord's party marked by torches, with no guards she could see.

She darted and danced away, focused on nothing but the two torches marking her chance at freedom.

The crowd was screaming, the torches blinding.

Torches lit the area, but it was impossible to tell her men from Memon's horde.

Torches blazed, and rich food began to appear on long tables.

He waited until he was free of the meadow before raising two torches above his head.

One day he gave a banquet to his friends, and after it they sallied forth with torches, singing through the streets, Francis being crowned with garlands as the king of the revellers; after a time they missed him, and on retracing their steps they found him in a trance or reverie, a permanently altered man.

In the course of this ceremony, after the sacrifice, men rush in all directions carrying torches; the women also carry fire-brands, or knock on the houses with rice-crushers and other heavy implements, and thus the evil spirits are considered to be driven away.

At that moment Napoleon was in the midst of his troops, thousands of whom had made their bivouac-straw into torches in his honour.

The chief exports consist of rice, rattans, torches, dried fish, areca-nuts, sesamum seeds, molasses, sea-slugs, edible birds' nests and tin.

Capture begins among the lower tribes with the hand, without devices, developing knack and skill in seizing, pursuing, climbing, swimming, and maiming without weapons; and proceeds to gathering with devices that take the place of the hand in dipping, digging, hooking and grasping; weapons for striking, whether clubs, missiles or projectiles; edged weapons of capture, which were rare in America; piercing devices for capture, in lances, barbed spears, harpoons and arrows; traps for enclosing, arresting and killing, such as pens, cages, pits, pen-falls, nets, hooks, nooses, clutches, adhesives, deadfalls, impalers, knife traps and poisons; animals consciously and unconsciously aiding in capture; fire in the form of torches, beacons, burning out and smoking out; poisons and asphyxiators; the accessories to hunting, including such changes in food, dress, shelter, travelling, packing, mechanical tools and intellectual apparatus as demanded by these arts.

When the decision was known the populace, who had been eagerly waiting from early morning till night to hear the result, accompanied the members with torches and censers to their lodgings, and there was a general illumination of the city.

His subjects were ordered to worship him under the name of Zeus; he built a bridge of brass, over which he drove at full speed in his chariot to imitate thunder, the effect being heightened by dried skins and caldrons trailing behind, while torches were thrown into the air to represent lightning.

The wood of the naio when dry has a fragrance resembling that of sandalwood, and is used for torches in fishing.

Some authorities, however, hold that it commemorates the red flare of the torches by whose light the work of construction was carried on nightly for many years; others associate it with the name of the founder, Mahomet Ibn Al Ahmar; and others derive it from the Arabic Dar al Amra, " House of the Master."

On the queen's first entry "a small floating island illuminated by a great variety of torches.

Black sheep were sacrificed to them during the night by the light of torches.

Later, they are winged maidens of serious aspect, in the garb of huntresses, with snakes or torches in their hair, carrying scourges, torches or sickles.

This is done about midsummer, when by the aid of torches and long poles many thousands of the young birds are slaughtered, while their parents in alarm and rage hover over the destroyers' heads, uttering harsh and deafening cries.

On the evening of that day Christian summoned his captains to a private conference at the palace, the result of which was quickly apparent, for at dusk a band of Danish soldiers, with lanterns and torches, broke into the great hall and carried off several carefully selected persons.

In her six hands are torches, sometimes a snake, a key (as wardress of the lower world), a whip or a dagger; her favourite animal was the dog, which was sacrificed to her - an indication of her nonHellenic origin, since this animal very rarely fills this part in genuine Greek ritual.

When Mr Hovey visited this cave in 1855 he found many extinct torches, charcoal embers, poles and pounders, as well as numerous footprints, in the soft nitreous earth of certain avenues, which were left by exploring parties previous to the coming of the white man.

In Normandy the farmers still employ children under twelve to run through the fields and orchards armed with torches, setting fire to bundles of straw, and thus it is believed driving out such vermin as are likely to damage the crops.

In the Sandwich Islands the nuts are strung upon strips of wood and used as torches.

After the bags, he brought torches covered in plastic bags and placed them by each column of the monument.

The nurses held the torches over the patient's abdomen in shifts to prevent their arms becoming stiff.

His eyes were like blazing torches; his arms and feet had the gleam of polished bronze.

Those that had survived the burning torches of the clearances soon crumbled.

The dwarf remained seeing the faint glow from torches onboard their prey long against the cold backdrop of night.

As I staggered across the valley to the campsite their torches still twinkled half way up the black obelisk.

Their revolution was not made up of a bunch of hotheads with torches and pitchforks.

You can create a magical pathway across the lawn from the parking area to the party area by planting tiki torches.

In the outlying serfs' quarters torches and candles were burning and no one slept.