headlight

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Recent Examples of headlight Visibility priority: Ensure your vehicle is visible to others by using low-beam headlights, which also activate your taillights. Kansas City Star, 7 July 2025 Visibility matters: Enhance your visibility in heavy rain by activating your headlights. Southern California Weather Report, Oc Register, 3 July 2025 Keep your headlights on and turn on emergency flashers to alert other drivers of your position. Bay Area Weather Report, Mercury News, 3 July 2025 Contributor Yelena Alpert is all about the LED headlights that highlight every spec of dirt and debris. Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 2 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for headlight
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Noun
  • The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, part of the Labor Department, wants to rescind a requirement for employers to provide adequate lighting at construction sites, saying the regulation doesn’t substantially reduce a significant risk.
    Cathy Bussewitz, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2025
  • Smith, a Suffield resident, claims the court administration has for years ignored state statutes requiring that outdoor lighting located at state facilities to be designed to minimize light pollution, and for nonessential outdoor lighting be turned off from 11 p.m. until 6 a.m. daily.
    Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • On a Friday night in February on East Sixth Street, a steely-eyed bar doorman rushed around a crowd agitating on the sidewalk and whipped a flashlight above his shoulder.
    Ella McCarthy, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
  • Those on moonlight tours should bring a flashlight to carry on board their kayak.
    Hobbs State Park, Arkansas Online, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • The light is dimmable, and the lantern is water-resistant for prolonged outdoor use.
    Rachel Trujillo, People.com, 17 July 2025
  • Japanese style paper lanterns in Tiffany blue hung from the ceiling, while the entry passage to the venue was lined in bamboo and neon lights modeled after the brand’s iconic bird brooches designed by Jean Schlumberger.
    Kelly Wetherille, Footwear News, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • The cake, with more than eighty candles on it, is the table’s centrepiece.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 July 2025
  • Stage the candles together on a mantel or entry table, or scatter them throughout your living space to create a colorful yet cohesive soft lighting effect.
    Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 July 2025
Noun
  • The pervasiveness of artificial light – be it in the form of streetlamps, billboards, screens or floodlights – keeps our cities bright long after most people have gone to bed.
    Laurie Winkless, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
  • The floodlights feature three lighting modes to meet your functionality and safety needs.
    Emily Weaver, People.com, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • More than 300 streetlights were improved or added, 40 police cameras were installed, 180 tons of litter and dumping were cleaned up, and 17,688 linear feet of sidewalks were added, among other improvements.
    Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Apr. 2025
  • For instance, Nashville Electric Service is in the midst of updating streetlights.
    Adam Tamburin, Axios, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Concept images released of the ballroom show the ballroom lined with golden chandeliers and golden chairs, very much in keeping with President Trump's gilded Oval office additions during his second term.
    James Bickerton John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025
  • But the giant on the Potomac with its acres of red carpet, Hall of States and Nations displaying flags of 50 states and over 190 countries, and its Grand Foyer featuring 16 crystal chandeliers and an 8-foot-tall bronze bust of Kennedy, will likely stand for another generation.
    Christine Ledbetter, Mercury News, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • There was one sort of heating stove and then a naked light bulb.
    Sacha Pfeiffer, NPR, 22 July 2025
  • The British were busy inventing antibiotics, the steam engine, the jet engine, the radio and television, the light bulb, and the internet.
    Tom Shattuck, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 June 2025

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“Headlight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headlight. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.

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