Sentence examples for a searchlight on from inspiring English sources

Dr. Beichman compared the challenge to "finding a firefly next to a searchlight on a foggy night".

It's a huge breakthrough to be able to put a searchlight on a virus that killed 50 million people.

It's not clear to me how a "searchlight on corruption" leads to the building of consensus, for example, or whether consensus is always the result of "enfranchising poor people".

Shining a searchlight on the ocean bottom, researchers spent two increasingly desperate hours in a submersible looking at mostly barren rock and silt.

Barr had the vessels form a "battle line" of sorts and slowly circle the burning ship, while his ship kept a searchlight on Volturno and another sweeping the ring of rescue ships to help them avoid collisions.

A searchlight of suspicion shines on those who strove so hard to bring private commerce into public services when they traded on that policy for pelf.

A new year has barely started and it's shining a harsh searchlight on an international aid system that, like a battered boat, is cracking at its seams.

When a predator shines a bioluminescent searchlight on them, these animals will stretch out, enlarging pigmented proteins and rendering themselves opaque.

He was quoted as saying: "All of a sudden, a searchlight went on.

"Nash would climb another mountain altogether and from a distant peak would shine a searchlight back on the first peak".

"Modigliani's theory was a powerful searchlight on what was happening," Professor Samuelson said.