noun
definition
A light source that projects a bright beam of light in any direction, generally for military use.
definition
The light from the above source.
Examples of searchlights in a Sentence
Roving searchlights splashed the Undersecretary with brilliant white light.
The searchlights fastened on the vessels.
Two more helicopters landed at different helipads while the searchlights continued to rove the compound.
The enemy's light guns, aided by effective searchlights, were offering a strenuous opposition to the small craft engaged on the all-important duty of clearing the channel of submerged defences.
At night, powerful searchlights shine into people 's homes.
Approaching the coastline they were suddenly coned in searchlights and caught in a barrage of very accurate flak.
Manufacturing from small rechargeable flashlights and torches to very powerful searchlights and floodlights.
At night, powerful searchlights shine into people's homes.
The boat is equipped with suction apparatus for marine salvage work and the electrical gear includes two searchlights on the deck superstructure.
Searchlights made effective patterns as they stabbed the reddened sky with their beams, which swept back and forth in wide arcs.
For the protection of the base, a monitor was stationed in Pegwell Bay, and searchlights and heavy and anti-aircraft guns were mounted at many points.
Under the searchlights of the new learning, the dictatorship of Ptolemy appeared no more inevitable than that of Aristotle; advanced thinkers like Domenico Maria Novara (1454-1504) promulgated sub rosa what were called Pythagorean opinions; and they were eagerly and fully appropriated by Nicolaus Copernicus during his student-years (1496-1505) at Bologna and Padua.
Miles made his adventurous journey through Oman, while Theodore Bent threw searchlights backwards into ancient Semitic history by his investigations in the Bahrein Islands in 1888 and in Hadramut in 1894 - 181n northern Asia it is impossible to follow in detail the results of the organized Russian surveys.