searchlight
noun/ˈsɜːtʃlaɪt/
/ˈsɜːrtʃlaɪt/
- a powerful lamp that can be turned in any direction, used, for example, for finding people or vehicles at night
- Enemy searchlights swept through the sky.
Oxford Collocations DictionarySearchlight is used before these nouns:- beam
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