landing lights

Example Sentences

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He used the helicopter’s landing lights to distract the enemy, buying time for the patrol team to head south and east toward a different extraction point he had identified.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2023

Mr. Taylor directed his wingman to fire his remaining rounds along the patrol team’s eastern flank while he fired along its western flank using his Cobra’s landing lights to draw the enemy’s attention.

From Washington Times • Sep. 1, 2023

One of the planes on the taxiway went so far as to turn on its landing lights as the Air Canada jet got closer.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2017

So we had to figure out a way to do that,” especially for the powerful, almost blinding landing lights of the “mother ship.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2016

It was semidark, not long before dawn, and planes were regularly taking off and landing, their landing lights sweeping the runways, or their wing and tail lights blinking in the sky.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey