headlight
- a light or lamp, usually equipped with a reflector, on the front of an automobile, locomotive, etc.
Origin of headlight
Examples from the Web for headlights
Contemporary Examples of headlights
The streets are unlit; the drivers are blind to anything more than a few inches beyond their headlights.
My headlights caught a lonely figure under the elevated train tracks.
When the headlights of the car in which Kumar travels lights up one such abode he feels immediately guilty.
In the distance, hugging a T-wall, two Humvees idled door-to-door with their headlights on.
Doctorow famously said that writing a novel is like driving at night—you can see about as far as your headlights shine.
Historical Examples of headlights
They were following a kind of road when headlights bore down on them.
Police Your PlanetLester del Rey
Then Nuwell switched on the headlights and they went on again.
Rebels of the Red PlanetCharles Louis Fontenay
Asabri drove toward Rome, his headlights piercing the darkness.
IT and Other StoriesGouverneur Morris
Muldoon's figure was outlined in the glow of the headlights.
Lease to DoomsdayLee Archer
Tires crunched on the gravel then, and headlights washed the darkness from the drive.
Star MotherRobert F. Young
headlight
headlamp
- a powerful light, equipped with a reflector and attached to the front of a motor vehicle, locomotive, etcSee also quartz-iodine lamp