Searchlights are ordinarily electric arc lights of great candle-power, arranged with a parabolic reflector so that the rays are sent almost wholly in one direct line, forming a path of light which may be projected for miles.
Searchlights have recently been made capable of being seen nearly a hundred miles away.
One can see the various searchlights playing in all directions.
When I was at Havre," Aurelle remarked, "a gunner went to ask the Engineers for some searchlights that were rotting away in some store or other.
The searchlights were thrown upon them, and the guns of the Belgian regiments fired upon them.
Then Dewey had to turn the searchlights on them and keep their vessels covered, to prevent any boat leaving at night without his knowledge.
As the Kinshiu's engines stopped, the Rossia turned her searchlightsupon us, brought her guns to bear, and lowered two boats, the crews of which we could see were armed to the teeth.
To add to our difficulties, the glare of so many searchlights directed full upon us dazzled our sight to blinding point, so that it was only with the greatest difficulty we were able to find our way.
How can you, with those searchlights turned full upon us, and those destroyers where they are?
A quarter of an hour more and that blackness ahead would be pierced by the blinding rays of the inexorable searchlights and stabbed by the fierce flashing of artillery, the glare of bursting shells, and the radiance of star rockets.
We were now about twelve miles off Port Arthur, and far enough beyond the range of the searchlights to ensure our presence being undetected.
On they came, rushing toward the harbour at top speed, with a hurricane of shells of all sizes falling upon and about them, and the full glare of the searchlights shining full upon them.
True, the sameness of this work was occasionally relieved by a more or less exciting episode, as when, for instance, the Russians would suddenly turn their searchlights upon us and all their batteries would open fire.
As the heavy German guns began to thunder and the searchlights to play on our position we gathered that a whole Army corps was about to be engaged and, falling back upon the camp, we found our men ready.
In their place appeared the bright, staring faces of the searchlights as they swept the clouds.
Then one of the waving searchlights strayed in their direction, and down its white beam for the space of a hundred yards slid a ghostly white moth.
The enemy searchlights must therefore be blinded, as far as possible, by an artificial fog or smoke-screen; but again this must not be dense enough to obscure the approach entirely.
It was, moreover, protected by forts with powerful guns and searchlights and torpedo tubes, and by barrages of thick wire and netting; it was also patrolled constantly by armed ships.
Lastly, it is believed that the Black Prince, who had been crippled hours before, was seen for a moment under the searchlights and guns of a number of enemy ships, who sank her at once.
Had the Titanic the means of throwingsearchlights around her?
At once the pinnace went after him, but in the darkness he could not be discovered, though the searchlights began to slowly sweep the dark swirling waters.
Now the German searchlights began to play all around, and the air was lit up with bursting shells.
On the roofs of most of the chief public buildings searchlights were installed, and all through the night they flung their dazzling rays across the darkness.
Until near midnight the rival guns hurled shot and shell at each other, while German searchlights flashed their broad beams to and fro searching the Allied positions.
Both sides were on the watch, and every now and then the crack of rifles and the screech of shells broke the silence, whilesearchlights from the heights swept the scene.
While they were so engaged, searchlights played upon our positions, in order to dazzle the eyes of our marksmen, and from dusk to dawn "snipers" were busy picking off all who showed themselves.
We also might have a gun to shoot searchlights with," he added.
But where are some of those powerful stationary searchlights you speak of?
On the high ground at the back of the torpedo stationsearchlights were mounted.
In the lagoon the Eureka and the Simplicita directed theirsearchlights upon the shore.
Consequently the searchlights had been temporarily shut off and a signalling lamp brought into play to frame a fitting reply to the Englishmen's single-worded challenge.
Sweeping round a bend in the river into the glare of the searchlights was the Pelikan.
On deck a strict watch was maintained, but the attention of the sentries was mainly directed downstream, whence the sudden switching on of the searchlights was to be the signal of the approach of the British flotillas.
Almost simultaneously thesearchlights on the Paradox went out.
Without any apparent attempt at concealment two searchlights had been set in position.
Lights, too, began to glimmer through the hatchways, while with admirable promptness the electrical staff set to work to renew the carbons of the searchlights and to test the circuits of the internal lighting system.
The searchlights had been unmasked and were directed towards the narrow gap in the coral reef.
He also says that a mass of Turkish reserves were suddenly picked up by the French searchlights and the 75's were into them like a knife, slicing and slashing the serried ranks to pieces before they had time to scatter.
The tugs with their strings of lighters could not run by day, and as soon as we could get searchlights fixed up, they would find it very awkward to show themselves in the Straits by night.
No more searchlights by night; no more big explosives flying from the Aegean into the Dardanelles!
The Turkish searchlights are both fixed and mobile.
Not so; far away I could see faint corruscations of sparks; star shells; coloured fire balls from pistols; searchlights playing up and down the coast.
Two Turkish Regiments were discovered in mass creeping along the top of the cliffs by the searchlights of the Scorpion.
Searchlights from many warships turned their rays upon us, staring at us from stem to stern, following us with a far-flung vigilance, transmuting the base metal of our funnel and brasswork into shining silver and burnished gold.
The second mate of the boat came to the side of the steamer and stared across the inky waters, on which there were shifting pathways of white radiance, as the searchlights of distant warships swept the sea.
On the heights of the Sacré Cur inhabitants of Montmartre gathered and thrilled to the flashing of the searchlights and the bursting of shrapnel.
From each side of the harbour two searchlights made a straight beam of light, and in the glare of it there passed along the surface of the sea, as it seemed, a golden serpent with shining scales.
As the ship cleared the harbour searchlights were played upon the Waikiki beach where so many enjoyable hours had been spent.
I saw that he had the power to be a shaman and more .
Redbird knew she had more of the shaman in her than Iron Knife.
A tall woman wrapped in a buffalo robe rose from among the seated people.
Half a dozen searchlights were playing, and shells were continually bursting in mid-air with a dull roar.
On our way back from the cave where we had again deposited the patients, the searchlights suddenly focussed all three Zeppelins.
Four searchlights were playing, shrapnel was bursting, and a motor machine gun let off volleys from sheer excitement, the sharp tut-tut-tut adding to the general confusion.
Returning across the yard one of them called out that there were three Zeppelins this time, but though the searchlights were playing, we saw no sign of them, and presently the "all clear" was sounded.
The white fingers of the searchlights began combing the sky again.
Searchlights in armor waited like men-at-arms to point with a long white finger at their prey.
It was a night wherein a hundred searchlights and a million star-flares would not have made more impression on the density of the fog than would the striking of a safety match.
If you mean after dark, at night--haven't we got thesearchlights and the starshells and all that?
All at once everybody on board the dirigible was startled by the sound of guns in the distance, and next moment the sky was illuminated by searchlights which swept the horizon like tremendous phosphorescent antennae.
Several minutes elapsed before the searchlightsfound the airship and focused themselves upon it, and then everything on board was illuminated by the dazzling rays.
Guns were silent, and the long probing beams of the searchlights no longer pierced the sky.
The searchlights had once again picked up the Wellington, and Dave had the crazy impression of flying right straight through the sun as he hunched himself over the controls.
By pressing close to the glass and trying to look in the direction of the engine, he could just barely see the long pencil-thin beams of searchlights raking the heavens far ahead.
Nazi searchlights on the ground, or Paul Prys, as the boys of the R.
Again the big guns in the armored turrets were bellowing forth their wrath; and then the searchlights stabbed suddenly up into the sky, sweeping this way and that.
This way and that the searchlights swept in great arcs across the heavens, in frenzied search for this monster of the air; but it did not return.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "searchlights" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
