How to Use torchbearer in a Sentence

torchbearer

noun

• He became the torchbearer for civil rights.
• Nick Gilbert was one of the eight torchbearers who helped light a 26-foot-tall menorah.
  — Bisma Parvez, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2019
• He was admired in Memphis as a torchbearer to the city's rap legends, Three 6 Mafia.
  — Adrian Sainz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2021
• Burnham, like the Klingon Voq, is her own sort of torchbearer.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2017
• He was admired in Memphis as a torchbearer of the city's rap legends, Three 6 Mafia.
  — Adrian Sainz, ajc, 17 Nov. 2021
• Den Hollander claimed to be a torchbearer for men's rights.
  — Gail Abbott Zimmerman, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2021
• Some are calling Ocasio the new torchbearer for the far left of the Democratic Party.
  — Fox News, 28 June 2018
• More than one torchbearer for the Beijing Winter Olympics is causing a stir.
  — Tiffany Ap, Quartz, 4 Feb. 2022
• Ahrens shepherded the Kolache Shoppe for more than 40 years, waiting for the right torchbearer.
  — Elisabeth Carroll Parks, Chron, 19 Apr. 2023
• Children crowded the sidewalks to wave little Chinese flags as torchbearers carried the Olympic flame through the streets.
  — Time, 30 June 1950
• Beijing, for instance, chose Qi Fabao as a torchbearer.
  — Jack Durschlag, Fox News, 16 Feb. 2022
• From a soaring skyscraper to the wide span of a bridge, landmarks and buildings around the world are often called upon as torchbearers of grief after mass tragedies.
  — Christine Hauser, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
• Still, Strick isn’t really looking at himself to be a sort of torchbearer.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 7 June 2023
• The lighting of the Olympic cauldron by the final torchbearer has long been a centerpiece of Olympic opening ceremonies and marks the beginning of the Games.
  — Saphora Smith, NBC News, 4 Feb. 2022
• The Palm was sold, prompting the departure of its charismatic torchbearer, Bruce Bozzi.
  — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2022
• Boss Morris may be the flashiest torchbearers for modern Morris dancing, but others are waiting in the wings.
  — Genevieve Marks, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• This is a call to action for mothers to be the torchbearers of change, the advocates for justice and equality, and the defenders of our heritage.
  — Essence, 4 Oct. 2023
• King, who for all these years has been a prime torchbearer for female empowerment in sports, made her disgust plain.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 25 June 2022
• Johnson was 49 at the time, but in rehearsals for the opening ceremony, Wolper was making his torchbearer feel like an old man.
  — Scott Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2020
• While Den Hollander may have harbored misogyny his entire life, this was a crucible that launched him as a torchbearer for men’s rights and, in July, a killer.
  — Dennis Wagner, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2020
• The champion tennis player, 23, lit up the stage at the opening ceremony on Friday night as the final torchbearer for the Olympic flame — and with her newly red hair.
  — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 23 July 2021
• Millennials, about two times more likely to possess a college degree than their boomer counterparts, are the torchbearers of the new era.
  — Caleb Richter, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• India took offense to an Olympic torchbearer and will skip the opening ceremony.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2022
• The senior finished the season on fire, and is considered a worthy torchbearer in the Tide’s recent inside linebacker lineage.
  — Albert Breer, SI.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• Over his prolific, decade-long career, Segall has proved to be a torchbearer of California rock, veering from surf garage to frenetic hardcore to desert-hewn psychedelia, in a lane all his own.
  — Andrea Domanick, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2019
• A torchbearer for all-inclusive, ecology- driven landscaping, Thomas Woltz is one of the field's top practitioners.
  — Elle Decor Staff, ELLE Decor, 17 Oct. 2012
• Although the latest torchbearer has arguably taken sweeper-keeping to an even greater extreme.
  — SI.com, 14 June 2018
• As the Games approached, speculation swirled about who would be the final torchbearer, usually an athlete who stirred exceptional pride in the host nation.
  — Scott Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2020
• There would be no dramatic handshake to upstage the athletes, flag carriers, drummers or torchbearers.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2018
• Much like the body-positive community, the pro-acne community takes to comment sections to cheer on their torchbearers.
  — Leah Prinzivalli, Glamour, 28 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024