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verb

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Recent Examples of floodlight
Noun
Photograph: Simon Hill There are tons of great home security deals this Prime Day, but my favorite floodlight security camera shines brightest. Simon Hill, Wired News, 11 July 2025 The floodlights feature three lighting modes to meet your functionality and safety needs. Emily Weaver, People.com, 10 July 2025
Verb
That year, the top 30 floors of the Empire State Building were floodlighted for the first time, to mark the opening of the New York World’s Fair in Queens. Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 26 July 2024 An intense 6000-lumen bulb and a wide-angle beam (320 degrees) make the Sansi floodlight the best outdoor lighting option for large yards, garages, staircases, and more. Nor'adila Hepburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for floodlight
Recent Examples of Synonyms for floodlight
Noun
  • Customers can wrap the truck’s exterior paneling in a color or print of their choosing, as well as customize lighting and tires, and even convert the two-passenger flat bed truck into a 5-person SUV.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Candleholders and a modern candelabra lamp that reinterpret the Swedish tradition of lighting windows during the darker months.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Ben Hania lights a connective fuse between documentary and drama, using the actual recordings of the panicked girl and the emergency workers — the latter played by actors who hold the screen with pulsing immediacy.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Everyone's got something that lights them up.
    David Oliver, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The sun was getting ready to rise over a rural lake in Green Lake County, Wisconsin, when a sheriff's deputy shined his flashlight inside Ryan Borgwardt's minivan parked just yards away from the water's edge.
    Jared Kofsky, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Another shopper mentioned using one as a magnetic flashlight during car repairs, snapping to metal on the car’s chassis for hands-free illumination right where it’s needed.
    Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, the headphones, meant to unify the audience in a shared soundscape, instead isolate viewers into their glowing silos, which feels like an ironic choice for a show supposedly about communal grief.
    David Hochman, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • As the glowing waning gibbous moon rose over center field, the Red Sox went quietly into the night one last time in the bottom of the ninth.
    Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Its central glass dome—home to the swimming paradise—glows like a lantern at dusk.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Over the weekend, around 16,000 people paid their respects to the designer at his funeral chamber at the Armani Teatro designed by Tadao Ando, filled with white flowers and paper lanterns on the floor in a diagonal grid formation dimly lit up the darkened venue.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Rising above the tents and flags of surrounding Indy 500 revelers, orange man beaconed to all in the area.
    Shari Rudavsky, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
  • Gaston Lachaise’s stone carvings still beacon grandly from Sixth Avenue, Lee Lawrie’s Wisdom still watches over the plaza, and Atlas still carries the world on his back.
    Zach Schiffman, Curbed, 15 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The four drivers were cited for infractions including a broken headlight, no insurance, speeding and no seatbelt.
    Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Deere in the headlights Attendees view a John Deere 7R 270 row crop tractor at the Deere & Co. booth during the World Ag Expo at the International Agri-Center in Tulare, California on February 11, 2025.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Images of the rock with its distinctive features were beamed back to Earth by Perseverance, while X-ray and laser sensors analyzed the chemistry of the markings.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Perhaps most notably, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, tried harnessing high-flying balloons to beam internet access to underserved areas with Project Loon, but the company later shut down the project.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Floodlight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/floodlight. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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