floodlight
noun
an artificial light so directed or diffused as to give a comparatively uniform illumination over a rather large given area.
floodlighted
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past participleof floodlight.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof floodlight.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
floodlightnounan artificial light so directed or diffused as to give a comparatively uniform illumination over a rather large given area.
Example Sentences
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Last week they were on view in the floodlighted garden of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the bare, floodlighted studio, he seemed a little lost without an audience, speaking more slowly, peering at his manuscript, pausing often to gulp at the glass of mineral water at his side.
From Time Magazine Archive
On a stage set at the base of the floodlighted Washington Monument, Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week addressed 65,000 listeners massed on the slick green lawns of Washington's Sylvan Theatre.
From Time Magazine Archive
Across McPherson Square and down two blocks was the White House, floodlighted, guarded, crawling with people and heavy with the trappings of power.
From Time Magazine Archive
The shanties and parked airjalopies of Junktown were floodlighted from above; lines of men were beating the brush and poking among them.
From Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper
