searchlight
Example Sentences
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At night, the crew trained a searchlight across the dark waters to look for growlers—low-floating chunks of ice big enough to puncture a ship.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
The task is a bit like discerning a field of fireflies around a central, massive searchlight.
From Science Daily • May 6, 2024
Using sound like a searchlight, they patrol the chilly depths.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2023
He then found himself "squinting into a gigantic searchlight" of media attention, he says.
From BBC • May 8, 2023
The searchlight followed, its beam clearly outlined in the sulphur cloud that trailed the balloon.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
