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headlight
/ ˈɛˌɪ /
noun
a powerful light, equipped with a reflector and attached to the front of a motor vehicle, locomotive, etc See also quartz-iodine lamp
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of headlight1
Example Sentences
Turn on your headlights or use fog lights if visibility is especially poor.
It is sleek and angular, with bright, downward-slanting headlights that have more than a hint of mischievous eyes about them.
They show fragmentary urban scenes — a few palm trees illuminated by the glow of an unseen automobile’s headlights, the artist’s bland backyard, some mute shops — but the images aren’t compelling.
Maehara was riding his electric bicycle on Merle Drive in Montebello, not far from his home, around 10 p.m. on April 29 when headlights from a car approaching him from behind illuminated his path.
“I was a deer caught in the headlights of a full-on romance, with no training or experience to cope with my teenage emotions,” he wrote, then explained his compartmentalized life and well-honed practice of denial.
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