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torchlike

a. Resembling a torch or some aspect of one.

Usage examples of "torchlike".

He sat up and then jumped up, his gaze a torchlike sweep of the terrain halving the armoire, the dresser, cutting a path with silver Light.

Spaced along the walls at two different heights were elaborately tooled wall sconces that looked like they had once held torches or torchlike lights.

Rather, it took six brands, still flaming, from the sand, scattered from the fire plate, and set them upright, torchlike, in a circular pattern about itself.

To make things worse, the light from the torchlike sconces was far from adequate.

And smoke, and flame, a wall of fire tearing through the foliage, touching Barb herself, her hair blazing torchlike, skin melting off her bones until nothing but a skeleton remained, still robed, still talking, finally walking through ashes with a hand raised to the camera.