What is "floodlights"

Usage examples of "floodlights".

Over on the starboard side, two very powerful floodlights had been slung above the huge turbine: the visibility they gave varied from three to six feet, according to the changing amount of smoke given off by the charred and smoldering insulation.

Instantly, powerful floodlights were tripped, blinding the driver, who brought his arm up to shield his eyes.

He skirted the wash of the floodlights, but what could briefly be seen of his face conveyed his anger at finding no one in sight.

Outside, on the immense field of black tarmac, powerful floodlights were joined by roving, sharper searchlights probing every moving vehicle, every inch of visible ground.

A part of his mind was on the ceremony that was taking place under the floodlights, the larger part on the final search - for it would be final.

Two floodlights converged on the high green metal gate beneath huge panels depicting brightly coloured birds.

In the glow of the distant floodlights he could see that Echo's face was battered, his eyes swollen.

Lamps and chandeliers were extinguished, supplanted by a startling array of floodlights positioned in the eaves of the great house and the trunks of the surrounding trees.

He then stepped out into the glare of the floodlights and walked casually around the corner towards the huge, charred french doors where a second marine was at his post on the brick steps.

Unescorted, floodlights on a white hull, brilliant running lights, huge red cross painted on her side.

Cleanup and painting squads are still at work under floodlights, though already the town looks far better than Baden-Baden did.

Standing huddled with the Prominente beyond the floodlights, he sees at a distance the detraining-the terrorized leaping, falling, and milling about of the Jews, the casual tossing out of bodies and luggage by bald-skulled prisoners in stripes, the long row the corpses make laid out along the platform.

The line arrives at a beautifully kept lawn, bright green under tremendous floodlights, in front of a long low windowless building of dark red brick, with tall square chimneys which fitfully flare.

The upturned floodlights prevented him from seeing down into the dark piazza where the assassins awaited him.

He looked up at the clouds scudding low, colored by the floodlights, and hoped, so much, that God could see.