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 was turning towards the shore, and then shining straight up into the trees.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
