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Searchlights

Searchlights | Searchlight

Searchlights meaning

plural of searchlight

Example sentences (20)

By 23:00, it appeared that the Russians had vanished, but they revealed their positions to their pursuers by switching on their searchlights – ironically, the searchlights had been turned on to spot the attackers.

He urged the President to beam his searchlights on all acquired assets in unexplained and suspicious circumstances.

Pickup trucks with machine guns, assault rifles, searchlights and thermal imaging cameras help fight off attacks, said a former computer teacher, now a soldier with the call sign IT.

Searchlights crisscrossed the sky and we followed the lights so my father could gawk in wonder.

The APC thereby called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent and Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) to beam their searchlights on the authorities in Kano state over the usage of public funds.

Facing German troops dug in against him on the, he deployed 143 searchlights to blind the defenders, one every 200 meters.

JABBA DABBA DO: Boris Johnson hailed the approved Covid vaccine as a form of “biological jiu jitsu” – saying the “searchlights of science” had picked out the “invisible enemy”.

The bear’s eyes glowed like searchlights.

We switched on our searchlights and directed them to the immediate front and set a lookout routine.

When the searchlights snapped on, the Germans shelled them, killing many of the lights’ female operators.

While Spider-Man ultimately turns Ollie down, the fact that Ollie’s homemade Spider-Signal was able to successful reach Spider-Man when the police couldn’t accomplish this with giant searchlights says a lot about his ingenuity.

But sources at the National Assembly claimed federal lawmakers are unhappy with the searchlights being beamed on their activities by the organisations.

National Guard helicopters hovered over downtown, sweeping the city with searchlights.

Although searchlights remained in use throughout the war, the newly developed radar proved to be a far more effective locating device, and Japanese radar development lagged far behind that of the US.

A Norwegian freighter saw Graf Spee practising the use of its searchlights and radioed that its course was toward South America.

Another revised logo was introduced for the 1995–96 television season, removing the searchlights, but retaining the two lower panes and adding a third pane atop the logotype.

As darkness fell, police searchlights illuminated the buildings.

A variant of the original 1993 design was implemented in 1996, excluding the panes underneath the network name, but restoring the searchlights placed behind the "F" and "X" in the Fox wordmark.

Controlled by sound locators and radars, searchlights could track bombers, indicating targets to anti-aircraft guns and night fighters and dazzling crews.

During 1917, the Dover Barrage was re-sited with improved mines and more effective nets, aided by regular patrols by small warships equipped with powerful searchlights.