单词	flashlight
释义	flashlight noun flash·​light ˈflash-ˌlīt  1 : a small battery-operated portable electric light 2 a : a sudden bright artificial light used in taking photographic pictures b : a photograph taken by such a light Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web The season includes one of the most chilling scenes in crime podcasts to date: three young boys biking home by flashlight when a man steps out of the brush and onto the road in front of them. Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2022 In the meantime, some people spent the night sleeping in makeshift outdoor shelters, as rescuers scoured for survivors by flashlight. Tara John, Akanksha Sharma And Sophia Saifi, CNN, 23 June 2022 On this particular night, sitting quietly within a crevice beneath the building’s metal awning and illuminated by Barber’s flashlight, is a little brown bat. Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022 The first comprises large portraits of DNA-flagged relatives — essentially strangers, chromosomes aside — photographed outdoors at night in open territory while illuminated by only a flashlight. Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 20 May 2022 There was already no power; doctors were performing surgery by flashlight. Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2022 The light of her cell-phone flashlight caught two eyes in the darkness. Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022 The cop shook his own flashlight down at some of the first of the first responders here on the northern edge of emergency, a Miami-Dade Fire Rescue special-ops team known as the Squad. Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2022 Save for a small hole that gives him a sightline toward the main road into the town, Ukrainian soldiers plastered the tower’s windows with newspaper to block the light from his flashlight. Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2022 See More Word History First Known Use 1886, in the meaning defined at sense 2a Kids Definition flashlight noun flash·​light ˈflash-ˌlīt  : a small portable electric light that runs on batteries flashlight noun as in lantern Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance lantern lighting headlight candle floodlight lighthouse streetlight spotlight flashbulb light bulb lamp candelabra chandelier sconce fluorescent lamp arc lamp gaslight sun lamp incandescent lamp candelabrum flash flashcube dark lantern flare beacon girandole klieg light gasolier arc light illuminant kleig light
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