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
From the doorway a searchlight swept the room, lingering on blocks where anything stirred.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
