Synonyms for flashlight
ˈflæʃˌlaɪtflash·light

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1. flashlightnoun

   Synonyms:
   torch

2. flashlightnoun

   A battery-powered hand-held lightsource.

   Synonyms:
   torch

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1. flashlight, torchnoun

   a small portable battery-powered electric lamp

   Synonyms:
   flannel mullein, common mullein, blowlamp, woolly mullein, great mullein, torch, blowtorch

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1. • Electric Lamp

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1. List of paraphrases for "flashlight":

   torch, lamp, flare, searchlight, lantern, filament

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How to use flashlight in a sentence?

1. National Weather Service:

   Turn on your flashlight before entering a vacated building, the battery could produce a spark that could ignite leaking gas, if present.

2. Gary Paulsen:

   The most, MOST important thing is to read, read all the time ; read when they tell you not to read, what they tell you not to read, read with a flashlight under the covers, read on the bus, standing on a corner, waiting for a friend, in the dentist's waiting room. Read every minute you can. READ LIKE A WOLF EATS. Read.

3. Christopher Cantwell:

   I thought that spraying the guy was the least damaging thing I could do, in my left hand, I had a flashlight. My other option, other than the pepper spray, was to break this guy’s teeth. OK? And I didn’t want to do that. I just wanted him not to hurt me.

4. John Smith:

   We didn't even have time to empty the garbage, i'm going in first with a flashlight and wearing a mask, and one of us will open the doors and windows and flush the house out.

5. Banpot Korncam:

   They just sat quietly without doing anything because it was dark, when they were hungry Coach Ek would use a flashlight to shine on the stalactites above.