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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
spotlight .
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Examples
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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.
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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
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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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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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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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In the spotlit lobby the casual rush and the formal stroll.
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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
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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
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Tony tapped my shoulder and motioned toward the animated bodies under a rotating, spotlit globe.
Brooklyn Story Suzanne Corso 2011
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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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