rear-view mirror

noun

1. a mirror on a motor vehicle enabling the driver to see traffic coming behind him or her

Example Sentences

“Driving away from Jack Cafe we passed another, smaller monument to James Dean, across from the site of the crash that took his life. I watched in the rear-view mirror as it disappeared behind us, lost in the distance and lost in time, but forever new in the grieving hearts of those who remember.”

From Los Angeles Times

Like a lot of that administration, in the rear-view mirror it looks like a holding pattern in between two eruptions of widening chaos.

From Salon

"I remember attending a suicide 20 years ago. Even now, driving home at night in the dark, if I'm in the car on my own and I look through the rear-view mirror, I can see him on the back seat," she said.

From BBC

Kristy Lees, who watched the battle unfold in her rear-view mirror, told the BBC: "It's not everyday a big, male kangaroo decides to take you on... Even in Australia, you do not expect to see it."

From BBC

"I'm looking in the rear-view mirror and they are throwing punches."

From BBC