Sentence examples for searchlight from inspiring English sources
The word "searchlight" is correct in written English
It is typically used to refer to a powerful light used to illuminate a wide area, often in the context of searching for something or someone. Example: "The searchlight swept across the darkened landscape, revealing hidden paths and obstacles."
noun
A light source that projects a bright beam of light in any direction.
Caught uncomfortably in the IAEA's searchlight, Iran is pondering its options.
This nicely links Mr Deutsch's ideas about explanations having infinite reach, which in turn suggests that mankind is only just at the beginning of an almost everlasting journey of creating explanations of the world.Turning his intellectual searchlight on his own field, Mr Deutsch rails against the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics developed by Niels Bohr and others during the 1920s.
Or maybe it is caused by the media's searchlight highlighting failures of government that were previously kept in the dark.
Forget the £4,000 it has cost to bring his teenage son's play to Edinburgh: as the house lights go down, please let there be no humiliation.Performers of all kinds, from schoolboy writer-directors to stars with household names, are drawn to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe like moths to a giant searchlight.
Those numbers should rise on February 7th, when virtually all corporate-bond prices will also be shown in almost real time.This shines a searchlight into a murky market that is widely seen as the last refuge of the broker-dealer.
The antenna can be designed to concentrate the radio energy into a beam like a searchlight and so increase its effectiveness in a given direction (see electronics).
In 1913 the Helgoland Lighthouse in the North Sea off Germany was equipped with arc lamps and searchlight mirrors to give a light of 38 million candlepower, the most powerful lighthouse in the world at that time.
When the flak starts coming at you and you are 'coned' in a searchlight you feel fear.
"Nash would climb another mountain altogether and from a distant peak would shine a searchlight back on the first peak".
The British major and the Cretan partisan crept towards the silent boats, but a German searchlight caught them.
While watching An Education, Fox Searchlight studio boss Peter Rice texted Never Let Me Go director Mark Romanek, who was having trouble filling the role of Kathy H: "Hire the genius Mulligan".
