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How to use headlight in a sentence

33 example sentences · noun

Headlight means a bright light, with a lens and reflector, on the front of a motor vehicle (or originally a ship or train), designed to illuminate the road when driving at night; normally one of a pair. Example: “He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.”

Examples of headlight by meaning

nounA bright light, with a lens and reflector, on the front of a motor vehicle (or originally a ship or train), designed to...

  • The indefinite object was drawing away from us at a high speed and eventually disappeared into a veil of atmospherics, very much as a headlight disappearing into a fog.1965, James Holledge, Flying Saucers Over Australia, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 28
  • Improving how headlights are designed and controlled does not have to mean choosing between environmental protection and public safety.2026 January 8, Drew Reagan, “A driving source of light pollution: How car headlights are reshaping the nighttime environment”, in DarkSky...

More sentences with headlight

  • He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.From the entry kill
  • He was scared stiff, like a deer in the headlights, by the vampire walking toward him.From the entry scared stiff
  • Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.From the entry dazzle
  • I left my headlights on all night. Could you give me a jump-start?From the entry jump-start
  • He left the headlights on when he parked the car, and now the battery's dead.From the entry left on
  • To make like a deer caught in the headlights.From the entry make
  • A Pennsylvania man was charged with jacklighting, allegedly shining his truck headlights onto a police deer decoy.2019 December 12, Maryland Department of Natural Resources press…. From the entry jacklighting
  • Pavement scrolled beneath the headlight beams, reminding Emma of a conveyor belt.2018, Darrin Doyle, Scoundrels Among Us: Stories. From the entry scroll
  • Friendly reminder to check your headlight fluid as the weather gets colder.2016 December 16, @AustinRC246, Twitter. From the entry headlight fluid
  • Its headlights whacked up and then gracefully swept down into emptiness.2012, L. Ron Hubbard, Mouthpiece. From the entry whack up
  • The car pulled off the road with the headlights glaring at the 'peg legged' deer.2009, Carlos Reid, Stalking the Warden, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry peg legged
  • Massimo's finger was poised above red on his multi-coloured biro like a kangaroo frozen in headlights.2007, Karen Foxlee, The Anatomy of Wings, page 250. From the entry biro
  • So you end up driving beyond your headlights more than half the time.2004 July 18, Rocky Roads, “Re: big rig out of control (Photo)”, in misc.transport.trucking (Usenet), message-ID…. From the entry brights
  • The blinking headlights in his rearview mirror indicated the driver's anger at almost being sideswiped.2003, Bob Weir, Short Stories of Life and Death: Complexities of the Human Experience, →ISBN. From the entry lay a glove on
  • I thought you were finished with principal photography." He looked disoriented, the deer in the headlights.2000, Thomas Hoover, Life Blood, →ISBN. From the entry deer in the headlights
  • 'What?' Budd whispered, his eyes on the buggish headlights of the harvesting threshers.1996, Jeffery Deaver, A Maiden's Grave. From the entry buggish
  • One lever controls directionals, the two-speed wipers, headlight flasher and windshield schpritzer.1966, Popular Mechanics, volume 125, number 1, page 230. From the entry schpritzer
  • Have you been replacing your headlight fluid regularly?2024 July 3, u/lolpan, “2023 Sport touring hatchback passenger headlight went out”, in r/civic, Reddit. From the entry headlight fluid
  • The signal for the Up Fast through road turns green and a headlight appears in the distance, rapidly becoming brighter.2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Traction transition: HST to Azuma”, in RAIL, page 32. From the entry brighter
  • There's something a little picture-postcardish about the way the headlights shine on the front of the old farmhouse.2016, Kristin Elizabeth Clark, Jess, Chunk, and the Road Trip to Infinity. From the entry picture-postcardish
  • 'Meatwagon is here,' Warren said as the ambulance pulled up with only one headlight and a smashed grill.1990, Robert Henry, No man alone, page 110. From the entry meatwagon
  • And as he passed stall twenty, he whipped the jackhandle out sidearm and broke one of Christine's headlights.1983, Stephen King, Christine. From the entry jackhandle
  • When a car goes by with one headlight if I say padiddle you have to give me a kiss!"1948 May 23, Bob Montana, Nevada State Journal, Reno, NV, Comics section, Archie. From the entry padiddle
  • No matter what you're going through—whether it be divorce, losing a loved one, or a burnt out headlight—you have a choice to rise above.2015, Eva Dowdell, Single Mom Style: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry… You’ll Pour Yourself a Drink, page 121. From the entry rise above
  • So we proceeded at chastened speed, the dust reduced enough that our headlights showed Ross's flattened tire as it flobbered joltingly around the rim.2012, Steve Turner, Amber Waves and Undertow, →ISBN. From the entry flobber
  • Then the headlights swept around the last bend in the track and the train was bearing down on us from less than a block away.2011, Stephen J[oseph] Cannell, Vigilante (A Shane Scully Novel; 11), New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN. From the entry wigwag
  • Reversing the car I got the headlights on the bird sitting on the roadside fencepost to reveal a Powerful Owl imperiously staring back at us.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 72. From the entry imperiously
  • Marty shook his head as he chucked a U-ey, the headlights picking out the dazed animal in the middle of the road.2001, Dave Franklin, Looking for Sarah Jane Smith: A Riotous Black Comedy, page 140. From the entry U-ey
  • Then there was the sound of transport, too heavy a sound for a private car, and headlights showed up the withered pot-plants in Crabbe's porch.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 494. From the entry pot plant
  • Current collection is by trolley pole with fixed head, and the locomotive is equipped with hand brake, electric headlights and a warning bell.1957 December, H. R. Stones, “The Hellingly Hospital Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 871. From the entry trolley pole
  • After the usual explanations and cussfest it was discovered that, aside from broken headlights and knocked down pilots, no other damage was done.1936, Locomotive Engineers Journal, volume 70, page 37. From the entry cussfest

Meaning of headlight

  1. noun A bright light, with a lens and reflector, on the front of a motor vehicle (or originally a ship or train), designed to illuminate the road when driving at night; normally one of a pair.
  2. noun A woman's breast.
  3. noun A woman's erect nipples, partially masked by clothing.

Full definition of headlight

Questions about headlight in a sentence

How do you use headlight in a sentence?
Headlight is used as a noun. For example: “He killed the engine and turned off the headlights, but remained in the car, waiting.”
What is a short sentence with headlight?
“Have you been replacing your headlight fluid regularly?”
What does headlight mean?
Headlight means a bright light, with a lens and reflector, on the front of a motor vehicle (or originally a ship or train), designed to illuminate the road when driving at night; normally one of a pair.

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