What's the difference between firebomb and torch?

Firebomb


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thousands took to the streets to protest, with many hurling rocks and firebombs at police.
  • (2) Shopkeepers said they were afraid to open after gunmen believed to be working for the Knights Templar cartel threw firebombs at several of the city's businesses and city hall over the weekend.
  • (3) Last February, Freedom survived not the first of attempts to hound it out, after it was firebombed, most likely by far-right activists.
  • (4) Three Malaysian churches were attacked with firebombs, causing extensive damage to one, as Muslims pledged today to prevent Christians from using the word "Allah", escalating religious tensions in the multiracial country.
  • (5) They were widely derided for being the "Postman Pats" of international terrorism, but the Welsh nationalists' prolific firebombing campaign of holiday cottages begun at the end of the 1970s caused havoc in the rural idyll of the Lleyn peninsula.
  • (6) The offices of Charlie Hebdo were firebombed last November after it published an edition entitled Charia Hebdo, supposedly guest-edited by Muhammad.
  • (7) Guy Shennan and Rupert Franklin-Lester Palestine-UK Social Work Network • It may be true as Adam Levick writes ( Letters, 14 October ) that Israel is under attack by waves of Arabs armed with rocks, knives, firebombs and automatic rifles.
  • (8) This whole time we were praying for her … but after all attempts to save her failed, she died a martyr.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A mourner examines the crib where Reham Dawabsheh’s 18 month-old-son Ali died in the firebomb attack.
  • (9) Authorities have banned motorcyclists from carrying passengers in an attempt to halt a spate of drive-by firebomb attacks.
  • (10) The Tokyo firebombing killed more people than either.
  • (11) Four clinics have been the victims of arson, including two similar firebombings in Washington state and California.
  • (12) Several hundred demonstrators pelted police officers with homemade firebombs and threw rocks and flaming bottles at the embassy as a series of events were held in Argentina and the UK on Monday to commemorate the 1982 conflict.
  • (13) In April 1989 Collets, the left-wing bookshop, and Dillons were firebombed for stocking the Rushdie novel.
  • (14) Charlie Hebdo’s offices were firebombed in 2011 after a spoof issue featuring a caricature of the prophet Mohammed on its cover.
  • (15) Queues formed on Wednesday outside polling stations as they opened at 9am under the same heavy security that had guarded the vote on the first day , when pro-Morsi protesters burned tyres and pelted police with rocks and firebombs, creating just enough tension to keep many voters at home.
  • (16) The Israeli military said he was hurling a firebomb at a car.
  • (17) Germans greet influx of refugees with free food and firebombings Read more On Sunday, the Social Democrat prime minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hannelore Kraft joined in increasing calls for an EU-wide asylum policy, arguing that many countries were failing to contribute enough to the crisis.
  • (18) In the first attack, the ground-level office of the three-story Metro Tabernacle church was destroyed in a blaze set off by a firebomb thrown by attackers on motorcycles soon after midnight, police said.
  • (19) Police say it followed shootings, firebombs, looting and, crucially, an attempted attack on the area they are using as a command centre.
  • (20) The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to talk to media, said police confiscated home-made grenades and guns, along with firebombs and knives from the detainees.

Torch


Definition:

  • (n.) A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame.
  • (n.) A flashlight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Demolition of a steel railway bridge was carried out by nine workers using flame-torch cutting.
  • (2) Some of the TORCH tests are not accurate and should be avoided.
  • (3) This study compared soldering by a conventional torch procedure with an infrared soldering technique.
  • (4) In this review, the diagnostic problems encountered in the evaluation of a suspected perinatal infection have been discussed, as have the complexities of the evaluation process for the original four TORCH agents, as well as for three additional agents.
  • (5) What his death may mark, in fact, is the passing of the al-Qaida torch from one generation of militants to another.
  • (6) These skin lesions are not specific of leukemia and other diagnoses should be considered including histiocytosis, neuroblastoma, and skin erythropoiesis (in Torch syndrome, hemolytic disease of the newborn, hereditary spherocytosis, and twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome).
  • (7) As rioters continued to torch vehicles and stone police lines several officers were injured by projectiles.
  • (8) Google celebrates the Mayan calendar in today's doodle Updated at 1.10pm GMT 9.46am GMT How to destroy the Earth In part two of our apocalypse video series, I demonstrate how the world could end using a variety of household props, including a Christmas pudding, a blow torch, some pebbles from my garden and a miniature snooker table.
  • (9) But even as soldiers were able to impose order there after several days of anarchy that saw armed Buddhists torch the city's Muslim quarters, unrest was reported in two other towns to the south.
  • (10) The importance of seroprevalence of the TORCH group of agents and syphilis on perinatal morbidity and mortality in Jamaican women is discussed, and appropriate recommendations for prevention and control of congenital infections in Jamaica are suggested.
  • (11) The experiment must equally succeed as a torch showing the way forward not only for an enlarging European Community, but also to the ever increasing interest in global harmonization of drug regulation.
  • (12) She took part in the Olympic torch relay and though she never met Mao, "Chairman Hu" – as she calls the Chinese president – visited her recently.
  • (13) But later protesters pulled down security cameras, smashed bus stops and torched cars.
  • (14) A few even said that Sunday’s looting and torching of a QuikTrip gas station near the scene of Brown’s killing should be interpreted as an attack on all outsider-owned businesses, which would continue.
  • (15) Stun gun torch Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Zap Light sends one million volts between six metal prongs at the front of its torch.
  • (16) In this study about melting and torchs employed in solder in fixed prosthodontics, it's analysed the accurate melting, adequate quantity, as well as protection of adjacent tissues with an accurate anti-melting.
  • (17) In the evenings the men's bodies were covered in toxic mercury deposits, left by the process of mining and washing the gold; they burned them off with a blow torch.
  • (18) Do you wish you could change the elements in the Control Center (which you reach by swiping up from the bottom) - so for example it would contain your favourite apps, not just the clock, torch, calculator and camera?
  • (19) The torch began its day in Greenwich Park, where the equestrian events will take place, and progressed through the east London neighbourhoods that evangelists of the London Olympics believe will be regenerated by the £9.3bn in public money poured into the area It ended the day in Waltham Forest in the hands of Fabrice Muamba, the Bolton Wanderers footballer who suffered a heart attack on the pitch at White Hart Lane in March and was raised in the area.
  • (20) They will take with them more than 11 tonnes of kit, including torches, axes, rope, search cameras, stretchers and tents.

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