torchlike

comparative more torchlike · superlative most torchlike

1. Resembling or characteristic of a torch.

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   The flames illuminated all of Frenchtown and caused great, shifting shadows and in the hot firelight her features became torchlike, flames dancing in her eyes, her hair down and spread wide across her shoulders and her cheekbones turned red and even her shadow behind her seeming to grow with her heated anger.

   2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 27, in Nick, New York; Boston; London: Little, Brown and Company, page 142