How to Use eternal flame in a Sentence

eternal flame

noun
  • Lighting his cigarette with the eternal flame.
    — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Greg Butler, the owner of the Main Line Armory, bought the replica lantern and created an eternal flame beneath it.
    — Jayson Buford, Robb Report, 4 June 2026
  • Lindamood said this helped come up with the flags for the different branches, the bronze sculpture, the eternal flame, a sculpture with lighting that mimics a flame, and other aspects of the park design.
    — Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 May 2026
  • The incident happened near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the ceremony for relighting the eternal flame, which is carried out nightly.
    — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 14 Feb. 2026
  • One of the most poignant choices is to intercut scratchy film of the train that in 1921 transported the Unknown Soldier to Rome in a coffin draped with patriotic banners and flowers, to be enshrined in the Altar of the Fatherland with an eternal flame at the Vittorio Emanuele II monument.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025

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