How to Use blowtorch in a Sentence

blowtorch

noun

• Use the broiler or a blowtorch to caramelize the meringue.
  — Tara Duggan, SFChronicle.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• The hiss of the blowtorch and the screech of nearby trains were its soundtrack.
  — Dianne Solis, Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2020
• Using a blowtorch, lightly char the top of the rosettes.
  — Sarah Schreiber, Woman's Day, 18 May 2017
• Claire used a blowtorch to smooth out the tops of her Reese’s peanut butter cups.
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 19 Mar. 2020
• That’s playing with a blowtorch, given how the White Sox offense is one of the best in the game.
  — La Velle E. Neal Iii, Star Tribune, 31 Aug. 2020
• The crowd pulls out their phones as Stember takes a small blowtorch and cooks the ends, and then tops the fish with mushrooms.
  — Tim Rohan, SI.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• The driver said Walton was the one wielding the blowtorch.
  — oregonlive, 14 Nov. 2022
• One was armed with a crowbar and appeared to serve as the lookout while the other took the blowtorch to the ATM.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 5 June 2019
• As the laser engaged the drone, the intense heat cut into the aircraft like a blowtorch.
  — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2023
• As the victim lay on the floor, unable to move due to her injuries, the man lit a blowtorch and held the flame close to her leg.
  — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 9 June 2022
• Bright light in the heat of summer makes them look like somebody hit them with a blowtorch.
  — Sally McCabe, Philly.com, 1 June 2018
• And that little welder guy Whose blowtorch light’s shiny!
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 25 Dec. 2019
• Do not use a blowtorch, kerosene or propane heater, charcoal stove or open flame.
  — Jennie Key, The Enquirer, 22 Dec. 2022
• With so many lipsticks, Nygaard needed the help of a hairdryer and even a blowtorch (?!?) to get the job done.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 19 Apr. 2018
• Just watch this blowtorch rip through a brass lock that purports to be tough under fire.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2016
• The Coronavirus gun not only lit the blowtorch, but caught the other mannequin's face on fire in the process.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2020
• The focus is raw fish, though there is the occasional flame smooch of a blowtorch.
  — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 July 2022
• Officers found the van with the driver and also found a blowtorch.
  — Grace Wong, chicagotribune.com, 13 May 2017
• Even then some aren’t dead before they are boiled, butchered or roasted with a blowtorch.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 16 June 2022
• Looks like we've been gifted a blowtorch for Christmas this year.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 24 Dec. 2021
• Wilson went searching for the rock himself, using a blowtorch to melt away the snow, but had no luck.
  — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 21 Feb. 2022
• The man allegedly used the blowtorch to break into the device and steal money.
  — Cyndi Schramm, Houston Chronicle, 11 Sep. 2019
• Also in 2014, a man in West Seattle used a blowtorch and a can of spray paint to kill a spider in his laundry room.
  — Kelly Kazek, AL.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• The group then used a blowtorch and sledgehammer to crack open a safe, according to video footage from the restaurant.
  — Fernando Alfonso Iii, Houston Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2017
• The lower receiver is the heart of the weapon and ATF requires three blowtorch cuts to render it out of action.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2018
• At one point, a small group of activists took a blowtorch and saw to a closed irrigation-canal head gate.
  — Ryan Sabalow and Dale Kasler, sacbee, 9 Oct. 2017
• Now sweat trickles, the canteen is out of water, and the September sun beats down like a blowtorch.
  — Bob Brister, Field & Stream, 12 Nov. 2020
• The thief used a blowtorch to crack the glass door without setting off the alarm and took tens of thousands of dollars worth of high-end North Face jackets.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2022
• At some point the authorities seemed to tire of cutting the ribbons and a man came with a blowtorch and burned them instead.
  — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
• Both those films address class war, but that’s it; where Bong employs a scalpel, Franco wields a blowtorch.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2021

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024