searchlight

Example Sentences

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For months, they’ve been signaling as if with a searchlight how much they covet the 6-foot-11 Greek forward.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

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 methods used by exasperated zoo-keepers included trying to dazzle the bird with a fire brigade searchlight before nabbing him when he was distracted.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2025

The task is a bit like discerning a field of fireflies around a central, massive searchlight.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2024

The searchlight shone directly at them for seconds that felt like minutes, but then it swung away and the engine noise changed as the steersman opened the throttle and moved off along the flood.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman