flashlight

Speech parts

1. flashlight - Noun

2. flashlight - Verb

Meaning

a small portable battery-powered electric lamp

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Examples

[Arguments about God are] like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining. N.T. Wright

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world. Gloria Steinem

She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet. Jonathan Safran Foer

Ever hold your hand over a torch (sorry, a flashlight for you Americans). Rick Riordan

I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore. Lloyd Banks

I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I did not think were possible - bathing with a cup of water by candlelight, for instance, and writing a story with a headlamp on. Janine di Giovanni

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