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.
He then found himself "squinting into a gigantic searchlight" of media attention, he says.
From BBC
Shortly after 03:00, Atkinson gave the order to open the bomb doors over the "huge furnace, with thousands of searchlights and heavy flak guns blasting away" in the defence of Essen.
From BBC
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
Between 2003 and 2020, scientists from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing caught almost three million migrating insects from high-altitude searchlight traps on Beihuang Island off the coast of northeast China.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
