flashlight

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Recent Examples of flashlight But, Hazzard emphasizes one item that is the most important -- an LED flashlight or headlamp. Megan Forrester, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2025 Moments later, one of the other two officers looked in the front driver’s side window of Rodrigues’s car with a flashlight. Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025 The neighbor claimed that the Crouses had not been living there for about a year and that Jennifer Crouse could be seen stopping by a few times a week to feed the animals, often having to use a flashlight because there was reportedly no power to the home. Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 21 Aug. 2025 Don’t shine a flashlight into the hole because the wasps will fly toward it and may sting you. Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flashlight
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flashlight
Noun
  • Wait to carve jack-o-lanterns until three to five days before Halloween.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Cutely line them up along the mantel with candles or lanterns, or add them to a nice tray with a few jack-o’-lanterns.
    Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Customers can wrap the truck’s exterior paneling in a color or print of their choosing, as well as customize lighting and tires, and even convert the two-passenger flat bed truck into a 5-person SUV.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Candleholders and a modern candelabra lamp that reinterpret the Swedish tradition of lighting windows during the darker months.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The candle has four slow-burning wicks, is filled with a paraffin and soy wax blend, and burns for up to 22 hours.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2025
  • On the other hand, Will — played with a jagged sensitivity by Paul Mescal, making the most of his sad-eyed charisma and physical presence — is a guy who feels more at home at a desk, with only a candle to light his way through the treacherous creative process.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The four drivers were cited for infractions including a broken headlight, no insurance, speeding and no seatbelt.
    Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Deere in the headlights Attendees view a John Deere 7R 270 row crop tractor at the Deere & Co. booth during the World Ag Expo at the International Agri-Center in Tulare, California on February 11, 2025.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Photos provided by the Mesa Police Department showed the worker wearing a yellow shirt, seated on a metal panel on the towering stadium floodlight.
    Laura Gersony, AZCentral.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • As evening fell, guests moved to a parquet dance floor set up over the tennis courts and lit with pink floodlights.
    Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The research builds on the Fraunhofer lighthouse project MaNiTU and the projects PrEsto and Perle, funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Be a lighthouse speaker, not a spotlight.
    Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The broken streetlights that illuminate the parking lot have been repaired, and a new gate has been installed that can be locked at night, thanks to funding Cessna secured last year through the city’s Public Improvements Advisory Committee process.
    Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Meanwhile, researchers with the University of Chicago Crime Lab found that upgrading streetlights in New York City’s public housing complexes led to a 36% drop in serious crimes like robbery and assault.
    Richard Fowler, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The new 120-seat restaurant places a spotlight on the French Italian Riviera and its cuisine—all while using those ingredients found a littler closer to Swikard’s home.
    Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2025
  • From up in the rafters, a single spotlight coldly blazed.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Flashlight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flashlight. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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