: a small battery-operated portable electric light
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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 WebThe 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
(especially NAmE) ➡ see also torchADJECTIVE | VERB + FLASHLIGHT | FLASHLIGHT + NOUNADJECTIVE➤pocket, small可裝在口袋中的手電筒;小手電筒VERB + FLASHLIGHT➤point, shine用手電筒對着⋯;用手電筒照⋯◇Neesha pointed her flashlight at the floor.妮莎用手電筒照着地板。◇Don't shine the flashlight in my face!別用手電筒照我的臉!FLASHLIGHT + NOUN➤beam手電筒發出的光線◇The flashlight beam revealed a pile of sacks.手電筒的光照到了一堆口袋。