noun
definition
A battery-powered hand-held light source.
definition
A flashgun (device used to create flashes of light for photography).
verb
definition
To illuminate with a flashlight.
Examples of flashlight in a Sentence
She found her flashlight and ran to the front door.
She raised the flashlight, her attention caught by the dark stain on his white shirt.
A flashlight blinded her.
There was no light in the back of the house and I didn't have a flashlight so I had trouble getting the key in the lock.
He waved his flashlight in an arc above his head and repeated the two words, a quake in his voice.
Grabbing the flashlight, she shined it into his eyes, screaming again.
I went out on the porch and turned the flashlight on the spot, but I didn't see anyone.
Quick steps came down the hallway behind a bobbing flashlight.
He fumbled with the flashlight, nearly dropping it when his arms embraced her.
She ran to the bedroom and grabbed the flashlight, pausing only long enough to check the window there.
Then she heard his footsteps coming into the kitchen and saw the bobbing flashlight as he opened the back door.
He set the flashlight on the table where it would shine on the floor and started for the living room.
If it is getting dark, a game of flashlight tag is always fun.
The glow from the flashlight barely illuminated the next few feet of inky darkness as the two youngsters crept along the dank passageway.
Tug, scream, shine the flashlight, throw the pitchfork toward the barn.
Dean flipped off the flashlight just as he caught sight of two very attractive breasts.
Jessi entered and looked around, recalling she couldn't find anything in the dark room without a flashlight.
However, they needed more supplies—additional batteries, a second flashlight, and marking chalk—all to be purchased at the variety store, which didn't open until eight o'clock.
He elbowed her away and grabbed a large coil of mountain-climbing rope and a flashlight larger than his.
There was the yellow movement of a flashlight much too close and Dean sat bolt upright, a frantic vision of Bob from Boise, or Hal the creep, or someone ready to avenge the chastity of a wife or sister.
Your jaw aches from holding a flashlight in your teeth, well those days are over!
The two flashlight bearers of Mithras stand at either side of the bull slaying scene.
A mini flashlight with years of service, the retiree's name & a saying he/she was infamous for.
After guests are in their pajamas (with sneakers for safe outdoor fun), everyone is given a flashlight.
Flashlight tag is a great game for camping out birthday parties, where the person who is "it" holds a flashlight and must find kids who are hiding and running by shining it on them.
As each person gets "caught," they get a flashlight to help capture people.
For example, flashlight tag could be an outdoor slumber party game in the summer.
I cursed myself for not bringing a flashlight as I felt around the walls for a light switch.
You've got the damned flashlight.
Suddenly he flicked off the flashlight, plunging them into utter darkness as she stumbled against him.
The skull looked up through hollow eyes, just as the flashlight died, plunging the pair into a blackened void of darkness.
Yeah. I guess we went in—a little way— but it wasn't so bad until the flashlight started dimming and I got scared we wouldn't find our way out in the dark.
I knew we wouldn't get lost, as long as we had the flashlight.
However, they needed more supplies—additional batteries, a second flashlight, and marking chalk—all to be purchased at the variety store, which didn't open until eight o'clock.
A few feet further, in a dry grotto scooped out from the main walkway, something glinted in Dean's flashlight.
As they neared the first turn, something glinted in the beam of Dean's flashlight.
He tried to hold the flashlight, but he needed both hands to secure the line.
His own flashlight was jammed in his pocket, pointing absurdly upward.
With his hands free, he unfastened the larger flashlight and pointed it downward, trying to find a path level enough to search further, now absent the security of the totally expended rope.
Dean pulled his flashlight from his pocket, handed it to her, and turned away.
He had no flashlight, and the fear he'd felt during his first trip into this deep and dank hole was compounded by the absence of being able to see.
He raised his other hand to shield his eyes from the flashlight, which Dean then turned away.
His glaring spotlight of a flashlight blinded her as he walked to the driver's door, and she held her hand up.
Once inside the barn, she grabbed the pitchfork and a flashlight and then darted out the barn door, screaming at the top of her lungs.
Outside the circle of light lay a small form, and a sweep of the flashlight revealed fur with copper highlights.
Turning on the flashlight, she moved toward the goat.
A dark form moved at the edge of the tree line and when she shined the flashlight in that direction, the light reflected off more than one pair of eyes.
Placing the flashlight on Brutus, she grabbed the sack with both hands and tugged.
His teeth were white in the reflection of the flashlight.
Do you have any candles or a flashlight?