searchlight in English

noun
1
a powerful outdoor electric light with a concentrated beam that can be turned in the required direction.
The contact boat was only two miles from Grafton, and a chase ensued, with the suspected smugglers being illuminated by powerful searchlights .

Use "searchlight" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "searchlight" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "searchlight", or refer to the context using the word "searchlight" in the English Dictionary.

1. Searchlight.

2. Searchlight for high speed craft

3. The searchlight bore on the enemy warship.

4. Then the searchlight dazzled her again.

5. A searchlight beamed in the distance.

6. He played a searchlight upon the aeroplane.

7. The criminals vainly sought concealment from the searchlight.

8. Backwind works alongside the Autobot Power Core Commander Searchlight

9. The beam of the searchlight pierced the darkness.

10. The airfield was bathed in the ghostly glow of a searchlight.

11. Backwind works alongside the Autobot Power Core Commander Searchlight

12. 22 The beam of the searchlight pierced the darkness.

13. What angered me most was the Gulag searchlight exposure of oncoming vehicles.

14. When the searchlight is turned on what we – as India - do in Afghanistan, the vista is clear.

15. Just have Searchlight use his helicopter blades as weapons instead of whatever Backwind’s weapon mode is supposed to be

16. The Type 59 was not originally fitted with the infrared searchlight or main gun stabilization of the T-54.

17. On the roof was a movable, remotely operated searchlight (elevation -/+ 90 degrees, azimuth 360 degrees).

18. Small's nephew stood behind the firing squad and trained a searchlight back and forth as we hared across the fields.

19. War has had a searchlight effect on historians as well as contemporaries, rendering the area outside the beam yet more obscure.

20. For nighttime fire, the TPN1-79-11 sight is used in combination with the L-2 IR searchlight.

21. Our content intelligence platform, Conductor Searchlight, generates customer intent insights that lead to compelling content, increased traffic, and higher organic marketing ROI

22. The Redding Record Searchlight has endorsed Proposition 39, writing, " ends a billion-dollar giveaway to out-of-state corporations."

23. The fleet, along with several German U-boats, assembled at Skagen on 12 July to practice torpedo boat attacks, individual ship maneuvers, and searchlight techniques.

24. A small searchlight projects a narrow beam upwards and heights are determined by means of an alidade and amounts are estimated by the trace on the recorder record.

25. At least six of the U.S. ships—including Laffey, O'Bannon, Atlanta, San Francisco, Portland, and Helena—fired at Akatsuki, which drew attention to herself with her illuminated searchlight.

26. The same year saw her undergo a minor refit during which a flying-off platform for a Sopwith Camel was mounted on 'Q' turret and a searchlight platform was added to her third funnel.

27. Bat-Signal When Batman is needed, the Gotham City police activate a searchlight with a bat-shaped insignia over the lens called the Bat-Signal, which shines into the night sky, creating a bat-symbol on a passing cloud which can be seen from any point in Gotham.

28. ‘Before 1965, cosmology was a quiet Backwater of science, almost a little ghetto where a few mathematicians could play with their models without annoying anybody else.’ ‘We ventured out alone - taking the risk that the quiet Backwater of Saqqez was outside the searchlight gaze of the moral police.’