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Example sentences for "floodlights"

Lexicographically close words:
flooded; floodgate; floodgates; flooding; floodlight; floods; floodtide; flooers; floor; floorboards
  1. He would be able to go only a few yards more because the floodlights were growing strong.

  2. As they neared the sentry post the water was well lighted from electric floodlights set on each bank.

  3. As he turned to pick a target, the field’s floodlights went on.

  4. In a moment floodlights lighted up the field a few miles distant.

  5. There were bright floodlights placed here and there to drench a large area with light.

  6. But what the floodlights showed made Lockley quiver with hatred.

  7. The floodlights were of typically human type.

  8. Thin rays from the floodlights filtered in through half open blinds.

  9. Floodlights streamed down on the hardbaked clay of the compound, bringing every rut or small unevenness of the surface into clear relief.

  10. There were no floodlights (they had also told me the field was well lighted).

  11. We left the glare of the floodlights behind us as we headed our ship along the line of flashing beacons stretching southward toward Miami.

  12. He turned quickly to the floodlights and searched the sea bottom.

  13. Bird snapped on one of his huge floodlights and pointed.

  14. See those floodlights fastened to the cliff so that their beams will sweep across the mouth of the tunnel when they are lighted?

  15. It won't try to leave the cave for some days yet, and by that time we'll have the land end opened and the floodlights turned on.

  16. The globe is equipped with huge floodlights and excellent cameras.

  17. As it did so, the floodlights on the cliff died out and the beam of the submarine's light was directed away from them.

  18. For several minutes the light of the submarine played across the mouth of the cave, and then the floodlights on the cliff sprang into full glow and bathed the ball and the mouth of the tunnel in a flood of light.

  19. Bird turned on two additional floodlights and studied the surroundings.

  20. The gantry, a huge derrick on wheels, was illuminated by intensely focused floodlights from a battery across from the vehicles.

  21. It kicked up a spray of gravel next to the rails, the small stones glistening in the floodlights like small shining stars as they erupted slightly to the left of where he had placed the charge.

  22. Soon the floodlights would be turned on, the press men with their cameras would be here.

  23. They shone in a wonderous riot of color, as varied and as beautiful as the display of colored floodlights in some great city.

  24. Bright floodlights illuminated the yard and a crew of soldiers were stringing telephone wires from the guarded front gate across the open space to the ranch house.

  25. Floodlights bathed the wire and cast an eerie glow over the mass of parked cars and persons jammed outside the fence.

  26. The sudden darkness blinded them despite the unchanged power of the television and military floodlights still focused on the yard.

  27. He switched on the ship's outside floodlights and the viewscreen came to bright white life, showing the empty glades reaching away between groves of purple alien trees.

  28. They'll shade their eyes from the light of anything as hot as boiling water but they'll look square into the ship's floodlights and never see them.

  29. The floodlights in the yard flashed on and the group, bidding the Youdes cheery goodnights, hastened out to the bus.

  30. As the bus turned into the inn, floodlights in the yard were snapped on.

  31. At the time you searched the basement, were the floodlights on from those TV cameras?

  32. Are you sure the floodlights were on when you stationed yourself at the point that we have marked as point A at the bottom of the ramp?

  33. Was there some sort of floodlights set up in connection with the TV cameras?

  34. At the time that O'Dell's car moved out, were the TV cameras--were the floodlights on?

  35. When you stationed yourself at that point, were the floodlights from the TV cameras on?

  36. How long were the floodlights on prior to the time that Oswald came out?

  37. At the time that Rio Pierce's car moved out, were the floodlights on?

  38. Now, whether they were floodlights or not, I couldn't tell you.

  39. But you also had floodlights down in the basement?

  40. They didn't have any lights on, no floodlights on, and they had been told to keep their floodlights off.

  41. Now, whether you call them floodlights or not, I don't know.


    42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "floodlights" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.