Further, in order not to be at too great a disadvantage in case of a sudden rush in the darkness, he contrived a makeshift searchlight out of a large photographic camera of his uncle's and a reflector of polished tin.
His feeble searchlight scarcely illuminated the space between the bridge and the bend; beyond the bend it gave no light whatever.
I've made a ramshackle sort of searchlight out of Uncle's old camera: it may help us a little in the dark.
The searchlight isn't powerful enough to be of much good; and the position might be rushed before the gun could come into play.
If he waited for darkness, he might find himself anticipated by them; and even with the searchlight against them they would have far less to fear from the garrison by night than by day.
Now there were forty or fifty men trapped in the dark wedge-like area between the beam of the searchlight and the breastwork.
Messengers were sent to Niagara Falls to have the searchlight car of the electric line sent down the Gorge; huge bonfires were built to warm the spectators, and likewise to illuminate the river.
Night fell before the barrel was recovered, and the woman's friends had availed themselves of the help of a powerful searchlight to illuminate the rushing tossing waters of the pool.
Ten minutes later, McKinstry, having sought permission to use illumination, caused a searchlight to be turned on.
Kuku Point (where they had been sent during the false alarm earlier that morning), along with the searchlightcrew and everyone else he could find, and to return to gun no.
Turning in the direction of the new sound of powerful marine motors, they were met with a bright searchlight beam, which swept from them to the burning sloop and back again.
If I’m not mistaken, I hear a searchlight coming now!
And all the time he kept an eye on the vertical shaft of the searchlight at the works, for by this beacon he knew the returning craft must guide itself to a safe landing.
He told how a movablesearchlight was stationed at the landing place and how the watchers then betook themselves to the wireless office of the works.
Almost immediately the shaft of the warning searchlightswept earthward and disappeared.
The searchlight continued to bathe the trust company's building in brilliance.
Did my newsearchlight puzzle you a bit to-night, chief?
A police auto drove across the grass, and the searchlight was turned on.
The searchlight swept across the deck and to the water on the other side.
The searchlight obediently swept the surface of the water.
The searchlight sputtered and then a long, white pencil of light shot out over the water.
The searchlight played endlessly over the water, trying to find some turmoil that might indicate the presence of a monster whose tentacles had fastened upon the ship, but without result.
As far as the searchlight could light up its surface not a wave broke its calm placidity.
A few hundred feet out lay a small practice torpedo boat, with the rays of a searchlight from the bridge of the parent ship of the First Flotilla resting full upon her.
But wait--" In the glare of the searchlight he could see they had lowered a boat and were recovering the torpedo.
At times he turned the swiveled searchlight upon a road-sign and evoked a glistening play of silver on the trees.
Though wind creaks startled him again and again as he made a pedestal of faded books for his searchlight and directed its glaring circle upon the blackened wall of the fireplace, no dreaded hand upon the knob disturbed him.
Kenny turned his searchlight on it and had a moment of doubt.
It flared up brightly and made a fine illumination, but as the flare died out there was nothing about the movement of the searchlight to indicate that the signal had been seen.
Back on the camping ground, the first intimation Florence and Greta had that there was anyone about was when, with a startling suddenness, a bright searchlight flashed into their eyes.
Had they been possessed of a powerful searchlight and an equally powerful telescope, they might have looked down from their lofty throne upon the little French girl seated there in the boat.
The sky was beginning to brighten from approaching dawn now, and the searchlightflashes were less brilliant.
Outside a powerful searchlight glowed and as they neared it Janet saw a large caterpillar tractor.
Suddenly the field burst into a flood of blue-white brilliance as a great searchlightcame on.
It is the searchlight of a British cruiser, keeping ceaseless vigil in the English Channel, fifteen miles away.
A German searchlight was combing out the heavens above: a constant succession of star-shells illumined the earth beneath.
Out in the street he turned and shot a glance like a searchlightround behind him.
After introductory parleys with the heads of the house the searchlight of inquiry was turned on the servants.
A stab of searchlight shot across the valley, swung along our ledge and clung with its glaring ten foot circle to the front of our main building.
The searchlight from our camp strove futilely to penetrate the cloud.
We gazed down our searchlight which clung to the dome of the distant enemy vessel.
Our camp searchlight was still struggling with it.
She was using hersearchlight on the clouds at the time.
The next moment the awful flare of a searchlight turned the room to a pit of silvery fire, and she cringed against the bed under the fierce white glory, covering her bloodless face with both hands.
They all turned in the sudden glitter of the Wyvern's searchlight and gazed across the darkness where the unseen cruiser was playing on them from stem to stern.
Peering anxiously ahead, David flashed the small electric searchlight he carried in an effort to discern Jean.
Directing the rays of his searchlight on Tom, David gave a horrified gasp at the sight of his chum's pale, emaciated features.
Before he could bring his searchlight into play, an indistinct form had seized him in a feeble but affectionate grip.
Limping ahead of the old hunter, Tom flashed the searchlight directly on the heavy door.
But I couldn't find even an overhanging rock, though I kept my pocket searchlight going constantly.
Judy sat down in the puddle made by the overturned pitcher and gave a dry sob, while Molly turned on the searchlight and called out: "Nobody but two penitents, Brother Philippe.
Her clear, fine complexion could stand the searchlight of the brightest sun, her hair was like burnished gold, her eyes, Philippe thought, like the bluets in the fields of Normandy.
His lantern had little effect on the blackness of the chapel and Molly had turned off their searchlight at sight of the apparition.
But the searchlight proved it to be nothing more than a great thick rope hanging from the steeple.
Wrapped in their kimonos and armed with Judy's electric searchlight and a big pitcher of water, as Philippe had said the floor must be wet to bring out the footprints, the girls made their way to the haunted chapel.
For a few seconds only the searchlight rays played upon the building; then all was darkness, rendered the more opaque by reason of the sudden change.
And the vessel that turned her searchlight on the Boxer?
The American warships, closing in from the north-east, directed their attention to the lighter batteries on the cliff side of Heligoland, and occasionally to shelling the barracks and searchlight station on the plateau.
He had little fear of detection from the searchlight men: his danger lay in the fact that upon crossing the beam of light from the open door his silhouetted figure might be seen by a vigilant sentry.
Again the searchlightthrew out its rays, and to the astonishment of both men they saw revealed the British destroyer less than a quarter of a mile away.
As he spoke a searchlightflashed out of the darkness.
Hamerton could see the roof of a searchlight shed slip past barely twenty feet beneath him.
Then the mysterioussearchlight vanished, leaving Smith and his comrade blinking in the darkness.
A searchlight from an airship," exclaimed the Sub.
The searchlight was now switched on, but the operators had made a bad contact of the carbons, for the latter were hissing and spluttering abominably.
He knew perfectly well that since from his window he could see nothing of the searchlight apparatus placed on the fortifications, it was conversely impossible for one of those searchlights to throw a direct beam through the window of his cell.
Jerry switched on the searchlight in the front of the auto.
The chugging of the motor had ceased, but the searchlight was still playing over the trees.
If the searchlight brings into prominence a bit of irritation that we did not know was there, so much the better.
If we are working carefully for true self-control we shall welcome an unexpected searchlight from another mind.
If Dalky had the Captain turn the searchlight on full force we might get a good time exposure of it," suggested Eleanor.
At an unexpected moment the Captain of the White Crest gave the signal for the powerful searchlight to be thrown on the big southern steamer.
These relative positions the two vessels maintained until darkness fell; then the glare of a searchlight aboard the German fell upon the Sylph and lighted her up like day.
The searchlight of the Lancaster now enveloped the German, and the searchlight of the latter now played upon the swiftly oncoming British cruiser.
The searchlight of the little craft was playing upon the water, and Jack could plainly see his prisoner a short distance ahead.
Then, suddenly, the light that illumined the Sylph disappeared; the searchlight on the German had been turned in another direction.
The powerful searchlight on the little boat lighted up the sea for a long distance ahead, and at least a mile away Jack could make out the craft in which Hardy was heading for the Danish coast.
A searchlight was on a tripod at the center, and a spool of electric cable.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "searchlight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
