searchlight
Example Sentences
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Ms. Kuin looks for Diogenes not with a lamp but a searchlight, straining to see his influence everywhere—even in places it is very hard to detect.
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.
He struck a match on the bottom of his boot and circled it ’round the room like a tiny searchlight, revealing each person in turn.
From Literature
The boat’s searchlight swept across the empty black water.
From Literature
At night, crews trained a searchlight across dark waters infested with so-called growlers—low-floating chunks of ice the size of trucks that can puncture ships.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
