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Searchlights were brought in for work to continue overnight.
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Searchlights from the guard towers and nearby IDF bunkers serrated the night.
The Black Madonna Davis Bunn 2010
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Searchlights sprang to life on the gondola, and as the sunlight faded, the bats gathered in the beams like moths.
Behemoth Mr. Scott Westerfeld 2010
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Searchlights swept their pale white arcs skyward, occasionally illuminating a passing bomber, but seldom long enough for flak gunners to draw a bead.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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Searchlights from the tug pinned her conning tower in a blinding, relentless glare.
Golden State 2010
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Searchlights swept their pale white arcs skyward, occasionally illuminating a passing bomber, but seldom long enough for flak gunners to draw a bead.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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Searchlights bathe the Rider house, and helicopters can be heard in the streets.
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Searchlights flashed across her closed eyelids, and the machine roared away, leaving the foul smell of its engine fumes mixed with leaking hydrogen.
LEVIATHAN MR. SCOTT WESTERFELD 2009
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Searchlights flashed across her closed eyelids, and the machine roared away, leaving the foul smell of its engine fumes mixed with leaking hydrogen.
LEVIATHAN MR. SCOTT WESTERFELD 2009
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Searchlights are sweeping the area at regular intervals.
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