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Example sentences for "spotlight"

Lexicographically close words:
spot; spotless; spotlesse; spotlessly; spotlessness; spots; spott; spotte; spotted; spotter
  1. The spotlight should shine on those who make the right choices for themselves, their families and their communities.

  2. A prowling mono-car slowed and maneuvered to cast a revealing spotlight on the loitering pair.

  3. One, a big, high-powered car with one dazzling spotlight swung into the narrow driveway and entered the grove.

  4. But when they went rattling across a small mesa where the sand was deep, a car with one brilliant spotlight suddenly showed itself around a turn just ahead of them.

  5. A gloved hand went out to the spotlight and turned it slowly, lighting the grove foot by foot and pausing to dwell upon each silent, parked car.

  6. The other car, having made no apparent effort to turn out, also stopped within a few feet of Casey, the spotlight fairly blinding him.

  7. Therefore, when the spotlight finally revealed him, Casey blinked against it with a half-hearted grin, as if he had been caught at something foolish.

  8. The spotlight caught the fluid in his upraised glass and flicked out little lights in answer.

  9. The spotlight was on; the full moon, pouring its silver down on the open roof, added its blue beams.

  10. Number 29 blue in the spotlight gives a summer moonlight; number 35 is best for a winter moonlight scene.

  11. I put a 50-ampere spotlight (very strong) on his face, and he did just this little trick beautifully.

  12. The makeup will stand a white spotlight or a pale yellow, but will not look well under too much blue and never well under green.

  13. Ah, Thart Kralt, turn your spotlight toward him, and flash it twenty-five times, for he is trying to start communications with us.

  14. You're using just a spotlight here, with a Moregan Point-light.

  15. Dot thought he would fall right over backward, and the round ray of the spotlight in his hand shot up to the ceiling and all about the room before it fell on Dot, standing over by the hall door.

  16. A spotlight flashed and roved around the room--touching ceiling and walls and floor in its travels.

  17. A mechanic's spotlight had been trained on their M4 Sherman: she was a dusty blob twenty-four feet long, nine feet wide and eleven feet high.

  18. The spotlight would push the sun with a force that was constant; no matter what the distance, while the light pressure of the sun would vary as the inverse square of the distance.

  19. It might be likened to the light-pressure effects of a spotlight and a star.

  20. The spotlight came down on him, blinding him to the others.

  21. The spotlight shifted as Harding got slowly to his feet, making a white halo of his hair.

  22. His mind raced in a welter of confusion, trying desperately to refute the brilliant picture in his mind from that split-second that the spotlight had rested on the driver of the black car, trying to fit the impossible pieces into their places.

  23. She pressed the switch and the spotlight of the bulb shot right into the face of the great chronometer in its glass case, hanging above the companionway steps.

  24. She shot the spotlight of the hand lamp into the small room.

  25. The spotlight rested on the royal family for a moment and then moved over to Irene.

  26. Irene, the twelfth fairy, danced into the spotlight and began to sing: "A twelfth gift I have yet to give.

  27. The spotlight on the floor reveals the girl sobbing over the body of the millionaire and trying to revive him.

  28. Then the spotlight rolls, revealing the body of an elderly man of the American millionaire type, lying crumpled against the table.

  29. The spotlight is showing into the fireplace when the girl crosses quickly into its rays.

  30. The spotlight in the hands of a shadowy figure roves across the wall and to the portieres.

  31. A young man, the exact counterpart of the man who in the previous scene looked into the spotlight at the French windows, comes up to the butler and demands to know what has happened.

  32. The spotlight on the floor reveals the girl sobbing over the body of the millionaire,'" he read, aloud, musingly.

  33. The unknown drops the spotlight to the floor and we first see his legs crossing the rays of light on the floor.

  34. The spotlight retreats from the curtains, leaving them dark.

  35. A spotlight focused on the podium gaped wide and bright.

  36. The spotlight on Matthew faded to a dim glow, and a second circle of light appeared, center stage.

  37. A spotlight turned the entire range of the spectrum upon her.

  38. There are advantages," says I, "in carryin' your own spotlight with you.

  39. There was a spotlight on them, she suddenly realized.

  40. On the huge statue, a spotlight was following two microscopic figures over the statue's shoulder.

  41. I'm glad they have turned the spotlight on.

  42. With the spotlight turned on the Fourteenth Amendment by these women, lawyers here and there throughout the country were discussing the legal points involved, many admitting that women had a good case.

  43. Dashing into the arena on his spirited horse while the band played and the spotlight flashed on him, Buffalo Bill rode directly up to Susan's box, reined his horse, and swept off his big western hat to salute her.

  44. It was not an automobile spotlight because a spotlight will not produce the type of light the sergeants described.

  45. Ain't they the limit, these spotlight chasers?

  46. We’ll put the spotlight on him,” said Grandfather, taking up a portable spotlight and adjusting a switch.

  47. It was growing dusk now and, as they circled above the island, Norma turned on the spotlight allowing it to play upon the dark clusters of pines, the gray rocks and the cottage roofs.

  48. He drove a stick into the ground and attached the spotlight to it.

  49. He stopped the car, shut off the engine, and after adjusting the spotlight so that he could see to work, threw his coat into the car and started the job of changing tires.

  50. Green connected the storage battery to the spotlight and tried the switch a couple of times to make sure that it was in working order.

  51. Once the spotter was properly located, two hours before the take-off time the spotter would emit an atomic spotlight for a half hour.

  52. A light flashed in through the port, their erstwhile jailers had aimed a spotlight on the ship, and with the light there came the pattering of gunshot.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spotlight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accent; accentuate; affect; arc; ballyhoo; belabor; betoken; brandish; breathe; brighten; celebrity; cry; currency; dangle; daylight; demonstrate; develop; disclose; display; divulge; dramatize; eclat; embody; emphasize; enact; enlighten; evidence; evince; exhibit; exposure; express; fame; feature; flaunt; flood; floodlight; flourish; focus; gelatin; glare; highlight; illuminate; incarnate; indicate; irradiate; lamp; light; lighten; lights; limelight; manifest; materialize; mean; medium; notoriety; parade; perform; play; plug; point; present; produce; publicity; puff; punctuate; report; represent; reveal; show; spot; spotlight; star; stress; token; underline; underscore; unfold; wave