1 The searchlight raked the open ground around the prison.

2 A searchlight beamed in the distance.

3 The beam of the searchlight pierced the darkness.

4 The police shone a searchlight on the house.

5 He played a searchlight on an object.

6 He played a searchlight upon the aeroplane.

7 Suddenly a searchlight was blazing in their eyes.

8 Then the searchlight dazzled her again.

9 It was the searchlight beam from the Coast Guard cutter fifty yards off.

10 I had a small beach searchlight but was not allowed to switch it on at night.

11 War has had a searchlight effect on historians as well as contemporaries, rendering the area outside the beam yet more obscure.

12 Flak began to be pumped up one searchlight beam: bombs meant bombers.

13 What angered me most was the Gulag searchlight exposure of oncoming vehicles.

14 The place was being spotted by searchlight and bands were playing the Marseillaise.

15 Siegfried waited for the searchlight to wash over him one last time, then crawled back to the West.

16 The searchlight remained fixed on us and a heavily muffled figure in a long overcoat and a steel helmet came towards us.

17 The searchlight lit up the whole area.

18 The criminals vainly sought concealment from the searchlight.

19 The searchlight bore on the enemy warship.

20 The searchlight swept the sky.

21 The big searchlight illuminates a spot a mile away.

22 The searchlight swept the sea.

23 The searchlight shot a long ray across the sky.

24 The strong searchlight showed up the indistinct figure of a man in the woods.

25 Like the searchlight beam,[] the radio beam cannot be made very sharp; it tends to spread.

26 The two scouts, swimming across the river, managed to keep under as the enemy's searchlight raked the surface.

27 He was suddenly caught in the full beam of a searchlight.

28 The airfield was bathed in the ghostly glow of a searchlight.

29 Small's nephew stood behind the firing squad and trained a searchlight back and forth as we hared across the fields.

30 A crewman was instructed to keep the skipper illuminated with the searchlight for the duration of the long tow to safety.

1 The two scouts, swimming across the river, managed to keep under as the enemy's searchlight raked the surface.

2 He was suddenly caught in the full beam of a searchlight.

31 Another company, Fox Searchlight (parented by 20th Century Fox), offers highly successful British imports like Bend It Like Beckham (2002) and Notes on a Scandal (2006).

32 Every aspect of the grinding process and machine comes under the searchlight to show step improvements.

33 Third, anti-aircraft division, 37 millimeters equipped with 30 anti-aircraft guns, 16 anti-aircraft 57-mm, 85 mm anti-aircraft 11, 100 mm anti-aircraft gun 7, and searchlight units and radar units.

34 As he looks down at them, searchlight is turned on him.

35 The parabolic reflector of a searchlight gives a parallel beam.

36 A powerful searchlight cut into the night[sentencedict .com], bouncing into the sky.

37 The shock acts as a searchlight by revealing the structure of the interstellar medium.

38 Left: A US Army sound locator for a mobile searchlight unit: early 1940 s.

39 Suez Canal searchlight, but socket and davit to be supplied by builder.

40 Larsson proposed in 1983, but shortly after their engagement he was hired as the Swedish correspondent for Searchlight, a British antiracist, antifascist magazine.