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The men worked by torchlight.
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And the king’s bodyguards, dressed in their finery, conducting a torchlight search for explosives in the cellars beneath Parliament.
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Alexander Smith, NBC news, 13 May 2026
On a hill wreathed in mist above the dark sea that runs between New Zealand’s North and South Islands, Ward and others crossed rugged farmland late on Tuesday night, carrying seven crates in silence by dim red torchlight.
—ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
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
Hedda’s romantic picture — of Lovborg dying magnificently, with Dionysian vine leaves in his hairs, from a bullet of one of her own guns — smacks of the same literary cliches that has Emma fantasizing about a torchlight wedding at midnight.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
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Alexander Smith, NBC news, 13 May 2026
On a hill wreathed in mist above the dark sea that runs between New Zealand’s North and South Islands, Ward and others crossed rugged farmland late on Tuesday night, carrying seven crates in silence by dim red torchlight.
—ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
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
Hedda’s romantic picture — of Lovborg dying magnificently, with Dionysian vine leaves in his hairs, from a bullet of one of her own guns — smacks of the same literary cliches that has Emma fantasizing about a torchlight wedding at midnight.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
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“Torchlight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/torchlight. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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torchlight
noun
torch·light
-ˌlīt 
: the light given by torches
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