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单词 torchlight
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Definition of torchlight in English:

torchlight

nounˈtɔːtʃlʌɪtˈtɔrtʃˌlaɪt
mass noun
  • The light of a torch or torches.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The torchlight glowered down to the barest hint of light emerging from the brackets.
    • Finally, by torchlight, I take a twitching haunch, cover it with rock salt and smear it with wild sage, and we've got dinner.
    • It was not the flickering orange of torchlight, but the steady bluish-white light of the evening outside.
    • Even at this late hour, torchlight and candlelight glowed brightly through the many gaping windows.
    • One of the local toms has a particular dislike for her and has battered her intermittently quite badly, and so began the hunt by torchlight for her.
    • Despite brilliant daylight outside, we move through the building by torchlight.
    • Then several beers and a feed under torchlight at the pub.
    • Numair was asleep, moonlight and torchlight falling in through the window and shining on his blonde hair.
    • I would usually start studying and handwriting assignments at 1am by torchlight as there was no electricity.
    • There was one staircase in the centre, dimly illuminated by torchlight, and it led to somewhere below.
    • Each bag contained a pencil, an eraser, a ruler, notebooks, a water bottle and torchlight.
    • Ather walked though the small city as torchlight illuminated the walls of the huts.
    • Her spiked bracers glint in the dim torchlight and her silver chaukrum reflect the light onto the walls.
    • They say they had no choice but to pack up by torchlight yesterday after the electricity to Woolston House, a former textile mill, was cut off.
    • He estimated his position from his brief view of the room with torchlight and the light framed by the doorway he had entered from.
    • The room was still lit by torchlight as Zarana rose from the cramped room and exited through paper door.
    • The lights were out and the only light showing was that of a small flickering torchlight.
    • There's live music most nights, but on at least one evening, have crab cakes by torchlight on the beach - truly romantic.
    • Lionfish, with their colours even more luminescent in the brightness of torchlight, gently moved around the jetty posts.
    • Slowly his eyes fluttered open, but the flickering torchlight that lit his cell seemed unnaturally bright.

Derivatives

  • torchlit

  • adjectiveˈtɔːtʃlɪtˈtɔrtʃˌlɪt
    • Lit by a torch or torches.

      a torchlit procession
      Example sentencesExamples
      • narrow torchlit passages
      • In fact, snow notwithstanding, things have been going seriously right: Moby has been secured, the torchlit procession has been successfully re-routed, and the health and safety people are happy.
      • It was the first torchlit scenic procession in New Orleans, a revolution in street pageantry, a revelation in artistic effects.
      • Visitors are being invited to join torchlit tours around the building during Hallowe'en week when guides will lead them around the dimly-lit museum galleries each evening, giving an insight into some of the spookier exhibits on show.
 
 

Definition of torchlight in US English:

torchlight

nounˈtôrCHˌlītˈtɔrtʃˌlaɪt
  • The light of a torch or torches.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I would usually start studying and handwriting assignments at 1am by torchlight as there was no electricity.
    • Numair was asleep, moonlight and torchlight falling in through the window and shining on his blonde hair.
    • He estimated his position from his brief view of the room with torchlight and the light framed by the doorway he had entered from.
    • They say they had no choice but to pack up by torchlight yesterday after the electricity to Woolston House, a former textile mill, was cut off.
    • The torchlight glowered down to the barest hint of light emerging from the brackets.
    • Then several beers and a feed under torchlight at the pub.
    • Lionfish, with their colours even more luminescent in the brightness of torchlight, gently moved around the jetty posts.
    • Finally, by torchlight, I take a twitching haunch, cover it with rock salt and smear it with wild sage, and we've got dinner.
    • There's live music most nights, but on at least one evening, have crab cakes by torchlight on the beach - truly romantic.
    • One of the local toms has a particular dislike for her and has battered her intermittently quite badly, and so began the hunt by torchlight for her.
    • Each bag contained a pencil, an eraser, a ruler, notebooks, a water bottle and torchlight.
    • Slowly his eyes fluttered open, but the flickering torchlight that lit his cell seemed unnaturally bright.
    • The room was still lit by torchlight as Zarana rose from the cramped room and exited through paper door.
    • The lights were out and the only light showing was that of a small flickering torchlight.
    • There was one staircase in the centre, dimly illuminated by torchlight, and it led to somewhere below.
    • Despite brilliant daylight outside, we move through the building by torchlight.
    • Her spiked bracers glint in the dim torchlight and her silver chaukrum reflect the light onto the walls.
    • It was not the flickering orange of torchlight, but the steady bluish-white light of the evening outside.
    • Even at this late hour, torchlight and candlelight glowed brightly through the many gaping windows.
    • Ather walked though the small city as torchlight illuminated the walls of the huts.
 
 
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