noun
- powerful electric lights with focused beams that can be directed in different directions, used for illuminating large areas or searching
Examples
- The prison guards swept the yard with searchlights during the night.
- Military searchlights scanned the sky for enemy aircraft.
- The rescue team used searchlights to look for survivors in the wreckage.
- Powerful searchlights illuminated the construction site after dark.
- The ship’s searchlights cut through the fog as it approached the harbor.
- Police helicopters circled overhead with their searchlights blazing.