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
• So does see now herself as the torchbearer for the next wave of swimmers?
  — Aleks Klosok, CNN, 6 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Snoop Dogg — rap icon, business mogul and king of brand deals — just landed a new gig: Olympic torchbearer.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
• In so many ways, Mr. Ramaswamy feels to her like the next torchbearer for the America First approach.
  — Jennifer Medina Jordan Gale, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• American rapper Snoop Dogg will be one of the final torchbearers of the Olympic flame.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 24 July 2024
• Afterward, the torchbearer reappeared to lead viewers through the halls of the Louvre, the famed museum at the heart of Paris.
  — Glynn A. Hill, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• Den Hollander claimed to be a torchbearer for men's rights.
  — Gail Abbott Zimmerman, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2021
• The identity of the final torchbearer has yet to be announced.
  — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 July 2024
• 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
• Snoop Dogg will also be serving as a torchbearer at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 24 July 2024
• Snoop Dogg has lived many lives: rapper, head of a label, torchbearer for the 2024 Paris Olympics, and part-time magician?
  — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 30 July 2024
• Out of the gate, the Rangers were happily absorbed into the bluegrass world, a space where many purists in the scene felt the group could be the torchbearers of the next generation.
  — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2024
• Ahrens shepherded the Kolache Shoppe for more than 40 years, waiting for the right torchbearer.
  — Elisabeth Carroll Parks, Chron, 19 Apr. 2023
• The rapper joins the hundreds of torchbearers who have assisted in the Olympic flame’s journey across France, which began on May 8.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2024
• Since then, torchbearers in uniforms have been carrying the flame through Greece, Monaco and France.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2024
• 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
• Williams, the four-time Olympic gold medalist, was a torchbearer at the Olympics' opening ceremony.
  — Susan Baek, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2024
• Jin also served as a torchbearer during the Paris Summer Olympics in July.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The final torchbearer, who will take the flame from Snoop and light the Olympic cauldron on opening ceremony night, has yet to be revealed.
  — Susan Baek, NBC News, 23 July 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024