rear-view mirror

noun

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

Example Sentences

With the drama in the rear-view mirror, here's how the dust is settling.

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Dressed in white and with a rosary hanging from her car's rear-view mirror, she drove through the city but became trapped in traffic.

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“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.”

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

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"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.

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