Sentence examples for headlights from inspiring English sources

The word "headlights" is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it to refer to the headlights of a car, like in the following sentence: "He switched on the headlights and drove away."

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headlights

noun

Especially a pair on a single vehicle.

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Using car headlights in daylight hours becomes mandatory.

On the two-hour journey from Casablanca airport, where our driver warned of Morocco's dangerous drivers, who neither dipped their lights nor slowed down at corners, the headlights revealed the horror of a thousand crushed or limping frogs, excited by torrential rain.

You couldn't even turn on the headlights or immediately some other car would move in, ready to take your place.

When BBC2's Newsnight cornered him with a hectoring presenter and a handpicked audience he resembled a stag caught in the headlights of a poacher's 4x4.

A cavalcade of motorbikes and cars with their headlights on and horns blaring paraded through the streets of Kano, northern Nigeria's biggest city, AFP reported.

It had been dark at the beach for hours, he hadn't been smoking much and it wasn't headlights – but before she turned away, he could swear he saw light falling on her face, the orange light just after sunset that catches a face turned to the west, watching the ocean for someone to come in on the last wave of the day, in to shore and safety.

And if you're driving in Switzerland, turn your headlights on.

They're rabbits in the headlights again.

Then, car headlights startled them.

By the waters of the Aegean, how angry can you be with the Greeks, who bequeathed the very name Europa?In this section Rabbit in headlights Anyone want to run this country?

Unusually, he has not served with NATO.In this section Rabbit in headlights Anyone want to run this country?

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