Sentence examples similar to directed a searchlight from inspiring English sources

The beams can thus be directed like a searchlight.

"We had a system set up so that radar would direct a series of large searchlights to spot German aircraft entering the country," he said, adding: "I had to make sure each radar light was operational, which wasn't easy.

Further attacks on the nights of 14 and 15 June were repulsed by artillery and machine gun fire, directed by searchlights.

That we will look at a place like a searchlight.

Rather than retreiting and reinforcing western notions, there are enough ethical issues in the developing world to which such trainees could direct their searchlight and scholarship.

He is adapting "The Keys to the Street," a psychological mystery by Ruth Rendell, which he will direct for Fox Searchlight Pictures.

In this movie, whose title echoes that of the second Bond film in that endless franchise, the drug dealers are somehow related to the Pakistani terrorists on whom "From Paris With Love," all but forgetting about drugs, directs its searchlights in its second half.

Braham was directed to an aircraft held in searchlights but he closed too fast and overshot.

Aurora challenged Kolberg with a searchlight, at which point Kolberg attacked Aurora and scored two hits.

Others blame him for the bridge built near the Hoover Dam that, they complain, directed traffic away from Searchlight.

That spotlight turns into a searchlight.