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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of floodlight.

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  • adjective illuminated by means of floodlights

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Examples

  • Accessed directly from the new Terminal 5, the lobby is themed "Antarctica" and includes a fountain cascading out from a mirrored ceiling onto floodlighted ice blocks.

    Sure Beats the Airport Floor 2008

  • He sat in the darkened stands, following the cuts and thrusts of floodlighted fencers, poised to spot some gallantry.

    Another Daunting Olympic Quest: 2008

  • Accessed directly from the new Terminal 5, the lobby is themed "Antarctica" and includes a fountain cascading out from a mirrored ceiling onto floodlighted ice blocks (£3,000 a night; sofiteheathrow. com).

    Lodging: Reason To Stay 2008

  • While electricity for Iraqis runs only a few hours a day, the embassy construction site is “floodlighted by night,” as a June 2006 Chicago Tribune piece succinctly put it.

    U.S. Embassy Building will Rival the Vatican 2007

  • It would be beautiful tonight when it was floodlighted.

    That’s Amore Carol Grace 2003

  • These kinds of luminance meters are especially suited for measuring floodlighted or transilluminated areas and not for measuring the luminous density at lamps and lighting fittings.

    4. Measurements at Lighting Installations Frank Ponemunski 1991

  • Its floodlighted brick facade was whitewashed, the mortar between painted blue; a red-white-and-blue striped canopy emblazoned with the club's name extended out from the front door.

    The Shape of Dread Muller, Marcia 1989

  • Even without leaving the floodlighted main cavern, without leaving the marked paths, there were plenty of wonderfully beautiful walks to take.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • We were standing higher than the main floor and at one end of the room; the whole thing was softly floodlighted.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • The shanties and parked airjalopies of Junktown were floodlighted from above; lines of men were beating the brush and poking among them.

    The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

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