1.   So I turned on my electric torch and there was nobody there.

2.   Remember those early books, when the fictional teen-age detective was a blonde instead of titian-haired and carried an electric torch instead of a flashlight?

3.   Using shovels and electric torches, hundreds of police, military and civilian workers were combing through smoking wreckage.

4.   A late-night inspection of troops took place in a gloom barely pierced by electric torches.