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Meaning spotlight meaning

What does spotlight mean?

spotlight

— noun (= limelight, glare) a focus of public attention he enjoyed being in the limelight when Congress investigates it brings the full glare of publicity to the agency — verb (= foreground, highlight) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics — verb illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater — noun a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer

Synonyms spotlight synonyms

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spotlight English » English

limelight highlight spot public eye floodlight draw attention to searchlight play up photospot glare foreground flashlight unfold torch throw out set forth reflector put forward projector lamp projector project prefocus lamp pinspot photoflood jack-light headlamp footlight focus flood lamp flood extract expose evoke educe draw out cynosure concentrate caustic bring up bring out adduce abduce

Topics spotlight topics

What do people use spotlight to talk about?
States Quality Light Shine

Light source

Conjugation spotlight conjugation

How do you conjugate spotlight?

spotlight · verb

Examples spotlight examples

How do I use spotlight in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom stepped into the spotlight.
It's hard for me to always be in the spotlight.

Movie subtitles

You've been content in the shadows while I basked in the spotlight simply because it's held us together.
Any chance to take the spotlight away from me, it's ridiculous how you grab it.
Schultz, the spotlight. Gypsies,sir.
Maybe it has some of the inconvenience of the spotlight.
Only you can be on-stage with a spotlight in your eye and still see a diamond in a man's pocket.
Couldn't do it without a spotlight, could you?
You're finally in the spotlight.
The mouse in the spotlight.
You're now entitled to a song and dance of your choice, with your very own spotlight.
You know, the celestial spotlight is shining down upon thee.
This portion of the news, Spotlight on Texas, is brought to you by.
Then the spotlight will pick up Harry.
That spotlight on your wife lights you up too.
Now it's time for our music spot- and we turn the spotlight tonight- on the Rachel Toovey bicycle choir.
I should have thought you would have felt more at home in the spotlight.
Schultz, the spotlight.
Get the spotlight off us. stop getting on the front pages with every thrill-happy dame in town. and stop shooting off your big mouth.
It's me setting the spotlight.
Yes. Do you know the big guy doing the lights behind the spotlight?
Who? The mouse in the spotlight.
Can you place the finger in a spotlight?
There's a spotlight booth that won't be in use.
The overnight millionaire will be caught in a spotlight from Istanbul to Peru.
The lucky girl, who's with us tonight, will have the spotlight thrown on her so the rest of you girls can go over and scratch her eyes out.
Keep throwing that spotlight around, Joe.
During this next dance, a little cloud will slowly move in front of the spotlight.
Spotlight, it hypnotizes them.
What do you want? - Shove that spotlight up your ass.
And, just as he was about ready to jump, skies open up, and there's this ray of light hit him like a spotlight.
Turn the spotlight off!
The spotlight!
Twinkee Doodle's Amateur Spotlight?
Desi, the Three-Armed Wonder Comic and His Musical Accompaniment, Gus, will be filling the number-two spotlight on this Sunday's telecast.

News and current affairs

Nor was Arafat helped by world events that shifted the spotlight to Bush's wars on terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq.
One problem after another is put under a spotlight.
The fact that the spotlight is now on China's Tibet-linked claim to Arunachal Pradesh, rather than on Tibet's status, underscores China's dominance in setting the bilateral agenda.
China has lately taken more to the spotlight than to the shadows.
LONDON - Giving up the spotlight is never easy.
The global economic crisis, together with the growth of emerging markets, is putting Europe's longstanding overcapacity problems firmly in the spotlight.
Two recent arrests of diplomats by their host countries have put a spotlight on the justification for, and limits of, the immunity from local law that such officials typically enjoy.
This puts the spotlight on India all the more.
Out of the spotlight, countless Muslim scholars and academics have continued to probe the connections between Islamic thought and modern values.
But executive remuneration has usually faded from view once the journalistic spotlight shifts elsewhere - that is, until now.
MEXICO CITY - Brazil has been in the global spotlight this year, and not always for the right reasons.
True, Kirchner entered the campaign not so much to win as to prepare for the next presidential election, but as Menem's opponents fell, he captured the spotlight.
David's father, Yohane Banda, suddenly in the media spotlight, said he had not understood that his son no longer belonged to him and might never return to Malawi.
That is why the spotlight is likely to turn on the terrorist nexus within Pakistan and the role of, and relationship between, state and non-state actors there.
Jolie's announcement has thrown a spotlight on that issue.
America will be in the spotlight once again.
The rotating presidency of the EU is about to shed a spotlight on one of these countries.
Only when the spotlight of Sharia shines on government wrongdoing will we know that Nigeria is on the road to prosperity.
As economies around the world struggle to maintain or restore growth in 2011, industrial policy is likely to be under a brighter spotlight than ever before.
First, the weak and largely jobless economic recovery in America and Europe shines the spotlight on China's surging exports and the non-tariff barriers confronted by would-be importers to China.
Other nationalities, including people of Jewish origin, began to appear in the political spotlight.

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