Searchlights is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Searchlights meaning
plural of searchlight
Using Searchlights
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of searchlight
- In the example corpus, searchlights often appears in combinations such as: the searchlights, searchlights and, with searchlights.
Context around Searchlights
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Searchlights
- In this selection, "searchlights" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, rifles, 143, giant, ironically, crisscrossed and snapped stand out and add context to how "searchlights" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include although searchlights remained in and and radars searchlights could track. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "searchlights" sits close to words such as abdelaziz, absolutist and accrual, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with searchlights
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The bear’s eyes glowed like searchlights. (7 words)
As darkness fell, police searchlights illuminated the buildings. (8 words)
National Guard helicopters hovered over downtown, sweeping the city with searchlights. (11 words)
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. (38 words)
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. (34 words)
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. (32 words)
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.
Facing German troops dug in against him on the, he deployed 143 searchlights to blind the defenders, one every 200 meters.
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.
Eight watchtowers, equipped with searchlights and machine guns pointed inward at the incarcerees, were positioned around the perimeter of the camp. April 27, 2007.
Enemy forces would use searchlights or seaplane-dropped flares to illuminate fleeing PT boats.
Common combinations with searchlights
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: