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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of spotlight.

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Examples

  • Spend enough time at "The Sacred Made Real" and the paintings, with their figures "spotlit" against indeterminate darkness, start to read as "portraits" of the sculptures, a not-unlikely notion underlined by the pairing of Mart nez Monta z's exquisitely carved "Crucifixion" and Zurbar n's two-dimensional version, in which Christ is like a carving in strong side-light.

    Bringing Devotion to Life 2010

  • But another Englishman gets it going again: Jimmy Page, standing alone on a spotlit stage with the double-necked guitar that gave us the intro to "Stairway to Heaven."

    The Government and the Guitar Man Nancy deWolf Smith 2011

  • As an adult, many years later, working with a Southern singer songwriter, I happened to be in Tupelo Mississippi one dark night and came unexpectedly across the spotlit cabin where Elvis Presley was born.

    Ethan Russell: Music, Words and Photography: The Long and Winding Road Ethan Russell 2011

  • As an adult, many years later, working with a Southern singer songwriter, I happened to be in Tupelo Mississippi one dark night and came unexpectedly across the spotlit cabin where Elvis Presley was born.

    Ethan Russell: Music, Words and Photography: The Long and Winding Road Ethan Russell 2011

  • As an adult, many years later, working with a Southern singer songwriter, I happened to be in Tupelo Mississippi one dark night and came unexpectedly across the spotlit cabin where Elvis Presley was born.

    Ethan Russell: Music, Words and Photography: The Long and Winding Road Ethan Russell 2011

  • In the spotlit lobby the casual rush and the formal stroll.

    Siemens in the Morning « Unknowing 2010

  • Last Monday, however, England's highest peaks were obscured by mist, though further along the skyline fleeting sunbeams spotlit the Eskdale Needle.

    Country diary: Border End Tony Greenbank 2010

  • Yet as Liverpool prepare to face Manchester United in the FA Cup for a match in danger of being more poisonous than for a long time, football's long, progressive battle against racism is suddenly spotlit again.

    Onus on clubs to prevent ugly spectre of racism rearing its head again | David Conn 2012

  • Tony tapped my shoulder and motioned toward the animated bodies under a rotating, spotlit globe.

    Brooklyn Story Suzanne Corso 2011

  • As an adult, many years later, working with a Southern singer songwriter, I happened to be in Tupelo Mississippi one dark night and came unexpectedly across the spotlit cabin where Elvis Presley was born.

    Ethan Russell: Music, Words and Photography: The Long and Winding Road Ethan Russell 2011

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