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• He turned the searchlight on the passing planes.From the entry turn on
• Their searchlights played through the trees, then turned back to Leia and the others.2011, Dave Wolverton, The Courtship of Princess Leia: Star Wars Legends, page 144. From the entry walker
• The train had a searchlight mounted on a pintle on a flat car.2005, James Meek, The People’s Act of Love, Canongate, published 2006, page 31. From the entry pintle
• I left the plane with two armfuls of groceries, a gun, searchlight, and other things.1943 September, “Tokyo Bomber Hero is Italian Prisoner”, in George Starr Lasher, editor, The Rattle of Theta Chi, volume XXXII, number 1…. From the entry armful
• The theatre can be visualized as including useful aspects of the threshold, searchlight, iceberg, novelty, and executive notions.2003, Max Velmans, The Science of Consciousness, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry supermetaphor
• The glare of a searchlight splashed against his visiplates.1940, A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt, Slan, Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., published 1946, page 101. From the entry visiplate
• They picked out like a searchlight a cushion, a couch, the thin clerkly mouth of the man opposite her.1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, London: Heinemann, published 1962, Part Five, Chapter 4, p. 193. From the entry clerkly
• At night there is no light in this building, but searchlights from distant points illume the splendid dome and the colonnades.1915, Alfred Emanuel Smith, New Outlook, volume 109. From the entry illume
• The shaft of the aerophore's searchlight might represent the gun barrel, and the Hertzian waves, bearing the message, the bullet.1913, Henry Walter Young, Popular Electricity and the World's Advance. From the entry aerophore
• At the time of the accident, the searchlight signals here were fitted with standard narrow-beam focussing, aimed at a train within 70yd of the signal.1961 February, “Talking of Trains: Collision at Newcastle”, in Trains Illustrated, page 76. From the entry focussing
• A searchlight wounded the starless dark.1931, Sinclair Lewis, “Ring Around a Rosy”, in I'm a Stranger Here Myself and Other Stories, Dell, published 1962, page 160. From the entry starless
• It is a heptapod, the trunk being supported by six powerful struts, carrying a series of searchlights, range-finder platforms, and director towers.1921 October, F. M. Robinson, “Professional Notes”, in Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, volume 47, number 10, Annapolis…. From the entry heptapod
• Occasionally, the sun pierces the clouds like a searchlight to illuminate a feature such as a farm, copse or stream, before being overwhelmed by an advancing shower.2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57. From the entry shower
• The only things piercing the glow of dusk enveloping Avalon Advertising are the searchlights crisscrossing into the air, which adds a Hollywood-like glamourama to the event.2006, Kimberly Llewellyn, Tulle Little, Tulle Late, →ISBN, page 297. From the entry glamourama
• Looking out of her window toward what I judged to be the northeast, I could see a bright beam like that of a searchlight pointed unwaveringly upward.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 94. From the entry unwaveringly

Meaning of searchlight

1. noun A light source that projects a bright beam of light in any direction, generally for military use.
2. noun The light from the above source.
3. verb To scan or sweep across like a searchlight.

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Questions about searchlight in a sentence

How do you use searchlight in a sentence?

Searchlight is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He turned the searchlight on the passing planes.”

What is a short sentence with searchlight?

“A searchlight wounded the starless dark.”

What does searchlight mean?

Searchlight means a light source that projects a bright beam of light in any direction, generally for military use.