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.
All the camps, whether temporary like Santa Anita or permanent like Manzanar in the Owens Valley, were secured with searchlights, guard towers, barbed wire and armed guards.
From Los Angeles Times
The unveiling had all the theatrics of a runway show: sweeping orchestral music, a parting curtain, searchlights beaming onto the stage.
From Washington Post
At one point, he spotted the helicopter and its searchlights.
From BBC
The dust cloud was even there at night, illuminated by the searchlights at ground zero, casting a sinister backlight around the silhouette of the Woolworth building, the pupil in the Eye of Sauron.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
