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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While much of the entertainment is free, tickets are required for such events as the rock concert in Princes Street Gardens, which will have a floodlighted Edinburgh Castle as its backdrop.
From Time Magazine Archive
They have swimming pools hooded against the noonday sun and athletic fields floodlighted for night play.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then the trotters were brought to the big city, presented to the racing public at night in big, new floodlighted tracks, and built up to a major sporting enterprise.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the floodlighted group around the speakers' platform, an aisle opened and the crowd saw Presidential Nominee Dwight Eisenhower, square-shouldered, striding briskly.
From Time Magazine Archive
No nation has ever been so floodlighted by world opinion as the United States is today.
From State of the Union Address by Dwight D. (Dwight David) Eisenhower
