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Meanings of dim light in English
A lighting device in front of a vehicle designed to light the road ahead while limiting the light towards the other drivers.
Synonyms
Examples for "passing light"
Examples for "passing light"
1
She stared at him in the passing light of the street lamps.
2
Lily's passing light-heartedness sank beneath a renewed sense of failure.
3
To fall in love with a passing light on the horizon, madness cannot reach to that pitch.
4
A passing light shone upon her.
5
The glimpse which Jacopo obtained, by that passing light, was the last look he had of his father's countenance.
1
The dimmed headlights of the two idling cars poured onto the ground.
2
Once, just once, he caught the glow of dimmed headlights falling on the slope farthest from him.
3
Through the trees which flanked the house the dimmed headlights of what was presumably Jerry Mitchell's hired car shone faintly like enlarged fire-flies.
1
Ereko studied the vessels' low beam, their simple square sail configuration.
2
She came through the door, her dark hair almost touching the low beam.
3
Down another ladder, to the orlop, where Bolitho had to duck beneath each low beam.
4
The headlights died back to low beam and the truck rolled forward and stopped again.
5
Above her was a naked lightbulb, some dead insects, a low beam covered in cobwebs.
1
In the passing beam of my flashlight, geometric patterns of shadow and light leaped off the crane tracks.
2
And they have said that thy passing beams have illumined their fugitive life.
3
Stripped of makeup, the brow and lashes flared white in the passing beams.
4
'Twas the passing beam, ere the sun goes down.-
Usage of dim light in English
1
Here she saw in the dim light something moving in the water.
2
Her entire demeanor changed; even in the dim light she looked different.
3
The ticking of the clock could be heard, in the dim light.
4
Nightmaws could not see well, but perhaps the dim light would help.
5
It's there to let a dim light down into the cargo area.
6
The small window near the ceiling let in only a dim light.
7
At the far end there was a dim light and a desk.
8
The dim light and the ceaseless roar of the storm oppressed her.
9
In the dim light I could see yet more people gathered inside.
10
Kneeling before the dim light, she unrolled the paper with shaking hands.
11
Gradually it resolved itself into a low mound in the dim light.
12
In the dim light, I saw her hands make a familiar motion.
13
The dim light of the stars was all that illumined the plain.
14
The dim light of a low gas jet illuminated the upper hall.
15
He saw her by a dim light cast from a salt-encrusted window.
16
Now she was alone in the dim light of two tallow candles.
This collocation consists of:
Dim light through the time
Dim light across language varieties
Canada
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common