How to Use searchlight in a Sentence

searchlight

noun

• MacArthur and a searchlight display from Navy ships in the harbor at night. ...
  — Scott Harrison, latimes.com, 21 May 2017
• A National Guard unit turned a searchlight on the pitch-dark camp.
  — Terence McArdle, Washington Post, 28 July 2017
• In the most recent image, a pair of searchlight beams blast from each end of the dusty torus around the central star.
  — Dave Mosher, WIRED, 30 Apr. 2012
• Under the glare of his copter’s searchlight, the pilot could see the sub’s hull was awash as the crew clung to the steel safety cable.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2022
• Her voice cuts through these cloudy soundscapes like a searchlight.
  — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2020
• The searchlight fell upon a pair of heads and shoulders rising above the water.
  — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2021
• Astronomers working on the problem liken it to trying to spot a firefly perched on the edge of a searchlight.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2015
• Around midnight, Landrail’s searchlights picked out oil and debris on the surface of the water.
  — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2018
• The searchlight is so bright that there is no such thing, any more, as obscurity.
  — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2021
• Two searchlights crisscrossed in the sky and gave the event an aura of a Hollywood premiere.
  — Douglas C. Towne, azcentral, 30 Apr. 2020
• The Ferry Building was outlined in colored lights, and a huge searchlight played upon the flag atop it.
  — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 22 Jan. 2021
• Overhead, three searchlight beams met, forming a soft halo of haze, through which the rain fell in silver sheets.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 25 May 2018
• Sailors claimed to have seen enemy cockpit lights, and searchlights across the water.
  — Chris Reeves, The Atlantic, 11 July 2017
• When the aft searchlight came on, Lieutenant Walsh saw what had rocked the craft: the explosive cracking of a plastic window.
  — William J. Broad, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
• Eight searchlights on tops of the buildings will create lighting that appears as a sort of crossroads.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 17 May 2019
• Event Series Beach Lights: Watch the boardwalk light up different colors as searchlights move and sway to the beat of music.
  — baltimoresun.com, 11 May 2018
• Finally, at midnight on Aug. 11, the sledges and tractors arrived in a blaze of searchlights and a rumble of engines.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 5 May 2020
• There are jetty lights, shiplights, brass lanterns, searchlights, deck lights plus porthole windows, a waterwheel in the yard and plenty of places to sit on the dock of the bay.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• The light of reason makes searchlights and lighthouses; the love of darkness asks us to adjust our eyes and egos sufficiently to see as owls do.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• CDLs were older, aging tanks fitted with searchlights that flickered their light beams up to six times a second.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 Feb. 2019
• Journalism has often been a better strobe light than a searchlight.
  — Richard Prince, The Root, 26 Oct. 2017
• There were also minefields, searchlights, high barbed wire fences, and constant patrols.
  — National Geographic, 5 June 2016
• There’s just something about tunneling your escape, avoiding guards and searchlights, that just feels cool.
  — The Editors Of Gq, GQ, 13 Apr. 2018
• During the search, the blue lights of police boats reflected off the waters as a helicopter hovered, shining a searchlight.
  — Carli Teproff, miamiherald, 3 July 2017
• The first Crabbe show had been over only a few minutes when searchlights picked up the dangling figure of Douglas Gee, parachute jumper who will make leaps over the channel each night of the celebration at 8:45.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2019
• On each of the three E’s, the pandemic has acted as a combination of unforgiving stress test and high-powered searchlight.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2021
• Authorities converged on that spot while the helicopter scanned the area with a searchlight so Schwartz would have to stop moving, according to the sheriff’s office.
  — Jared Gilmour, sacbee, 30 Apr. 2018
• The intersection was brightly lighted—two searchlights played on nearby buildings—and at this hour the area was extremely noisy.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 25 May 2018
• But the searchlights also allowed the American gunners to see their adversaries.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 June 2018
• After the Manhattan Project commandeered the mine in 1943 and forced miners to work round-the-clock shifts in the open pit under searchlights, the mine’s name was formally interdicted from reproduction and erased from maps.
  — Roger Peet, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024