Then with still around 200 yards to go, a destroyer's searchlight beam lit up the advancing men, and a Turkish machine-gun opened fire on them.
A tail, stretching perhaps for tens of millions of miles, might protrude from above the horizon like some ghostly searchlight beam.
Overhead, three searchlight beams met, forming a soft halo of haze, through which the rain fell in silver sheets.
Today, a pair of astronomers told the American Astronomical Society meeting here that they have instead used the light from entire galaxies to probe DLα clouds the equivalent of using searchlight beams compared with a quasar's laser.
And as the sun went down and a rising full moon cast a silvery darkness over the city, two powerful searchlight beams shot skyward from near ground zero, creating likenesses of the fallen towers in a "Tribute in Light".
Romantic conversations take place on the Windmill's roof at night as searchlight beams criss-cross in the sky.
It is impossible to consider Nash without the influence on him of modernism, which began as early as the 1917-18 war pictures with the zig-zag vorticism of Christopher Nevinson – geometric planes and night skies sliced by searchlight beams.
Sparkling white columns shoot upwards like vertical searchlight beams made up of dazzling particles of celestial champagne, then fade, then shoot up again in a different area.
