searchlight• Suddenly a searchlight was blazing in their eyes.• Behind the hugemirrors and searchlights were buildings full of food and supplies.• Siegfried waited for the searchlight to wash over him one last time, then crawled back to the West.• Then the searchlightdazzled her again.• It was the searchlightbeam from the Coast Guard cutter fifty yards off.• At the perimeter of the base they were testing their searchlights for the oncoming night.• Two searchlights came on, brilliantsticks of light, prodding the sky.