SPOTLIGHT in a Sentence

Learn SPOTLIGHT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for SPOTLIGHT, such as:

1. She stood alone on stage in the spotlight.
2. The spotlight followed her round the stage.
3. She stepped into the spotlight and began to sing.
4. They shone the spotlight on a woman waving at the back of the audience.
5. The senator has been in the spotlight recently since the revelation of his tax frauds.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPOTLIGHT
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spotlight
 n.  lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; focus of public attention
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Example Sentence:
1  She stood alone on stage in the spotlight.
2  They shone the spotlight on a woman waving at the back of the audience.
3  Public scrutiny had brought civil servants out from the backroom and into the spotlight.
4  The senator has been in the spotlight recently since the revelation of his tax frauds.
5  She stepped into the spotlight and began to sing.
6  The spotlight followed her round the stage.
7  No single nation wants to be put in the spotlight as the swing vote that could give the US the nine votes to get a new resolution through.