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How to use searchlights in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word searchlights? Here are some examples.

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Then without warning large searchlights lit up all around the base of the tower and pointed up.
During WWII searchlights were beamed continuously across Sydney Harbour as a deterrent to the Japanese.
Using military surplus equipment like smoke grenades, searchlights, and small airplanes, the FWS herded the birds back into the refuges.
The contact boat was only two miles from Grafton, and a chase ensued, with the suspected smugglers being illuminated by powerful searchlights.
They also had searchlights encase anyone tried to sneak out during the night.
The lighting also adds to the stage show feel with scorching searchlights and moody spots, used to great effect for the real deep blues numbers.
At night, you could see four searchlights pointing directly upwards to indicate the corner of the neutral zone.
They also move about unrestrained by razor wire, searchlights, locks or electric fences.
There were rows of razor wire, electric fences, guard towers and searchlights.
Over a quarter served in anti-aircraft batteries where they came under fire and operated searchlights and targeting instruments.
They were used to draw searchlights and flak away from these more vulnerable aircraft.
The Dover Barrage was a combination of nets, mines and searchlights, patrolled by light craft.
Large searchlights that had festooned the foremast lay collapsed beneath it on the seabed and her main fore guns were still trained menacingly to port.
As a member of the Royal Navy, he was in charge of operating the searchlights on a battleship called the Valiant.
Immediately after the attack, Philip used his searchlights to scour the ocean for survivors to rescue.
Eighty-eight powerful searchlights are used, each with a 7,000-watt bulb.
Both Ceuta and Melilla are now surrounded by 10-foot fences studded with guard towers and movement sensors, topped with barbed wire and halogen searchlights.
At night there is no light in this building, but searchlights from distant points illume the splendid dome and the colonnades.
Spare us the thought that we might have to rely on a home guard, searchlights and barrage balloons.
Further along the same arm, towards Portland, are two World War II coast artillery searchlights.
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Along the high wire fences, searchlights played on cinder-lined yards, switch-tracks, and armed guards on patrol.
And I don't believe these ginks in the mines have electric searchlights to lug around with them!
When the enemy switched his searchlights off Shaitan hauled out too.
The stars leaped and danced in the frosty air, and overhead the colored bars of the aurora borealis were shooting like great searchlights.
We're within a hundred yards of the German trenches and they are bringing searchlights up.
The Aurora, like a hundred searchlights, was whipping across the sky.
Driving back to Cassel we had a fine sight of bombing and searchlights.
By day their smoking funnels dimmed the sea-rim, and by night their flashing searchlights ploughed the dark and harrowed it for the tiniest escaping junk.
The statistics show that 58,640 merchant steamers, equipped with searchlights and rapid-fire guns, were despatched by the various nations to China.
The other turned his spectacles upon Ossipon like a pair of searchlights.
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