Crossword clues for spotlit
spotlit
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: spotlight)
WordNet
n. a focus of public attention; "he enjoyed being in the limelight"; "when Congress investigates it brings the full glare of publicity to the agency" [syn: limelight, glare, public eye]
a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer [syn: spot]
v. move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent; "The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics" [syn: foreground, highlight, play up] [ant: background, background]
illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater
[also: spotlit]
See spotlight
Usage examples of "spotlit".
We topped a rise and I saw the household spotlit by the low sun, against a background of purple rainclouds.
He looked at the officer and the guardsman, standing twenty feet away on the spotlit highway, and then he turned and looked at Mr.
She gave one last look at the dance floor, but nothing had changed within the intricate lattice of dancers and smoke, braids of glow-lights and spotlit faces surging up and down, up and down, while more dancers fought their way to the center.
I duck from beneath the spastic neon of a porno parlour, spotlit and anonymous, and there she is, eating popcorn or chestnuts from a paper cone.
The remaining crepuscular rays through the heavy clouds spotlit the distant plain.
The bright beam unfortunately spotlit his privates, then partially blinded him.
The spotlit front of the big hotel reminded me of Fargo and all the useless pictures I had ordered from him.
Curtains slid across the front of the proscenium, luxuriously hung in tiers of pleats, spotlit in pink and orange and green.
The kitchen looked like the flight deck of a 747, orange and red lights flickering in the gloom, and machines that ticked, and spotlit worktops.
The driveway wound past spotlit boulders, tall, creaking lodgepole pines, stands of white-skinned aspens, thickets of chokecherry bushes, and blue spruces in perfect Christmas-tree shapes.
But the real action was taking place in spotlit nooks and crannies around the perimeter.