Example Sentences

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Childs replaced Libeskind's torchlike spire with a more traditional antenna and the sun alignment turned out not to be very feasible.

From Time • Sep. 9, 2011

"Boom! boom!" and when I looked again at the great ironclad, a little torchlike spurt of flame wavered behind her funnels.

From In the Days of the Comet by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Again the lightning flared torchlike through the gloom, but the thunder of the torrent drowned the thunder overhead.

From The Top of the World by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)