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Meanings of dimmed headlight in English

A lighting device in front of a vehicle designed to light the road ahead while limiting the light towards the other drivers.

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Examples for "dim light"
Examples for "dim light"
1
Here she saw in the dim light something moving in the water.
Queer Stories for Boys and Girls
2
Her entire demeanor changed; even in the dim light she looked different.
Affliction
3
The ticking of the clock could be heard, in the dim light.
The Daughters of Danaus
4
Nightmaws could not see well, but perhaps the dim light would help.
Arcanum Unbounded
5
It's there to let a dim light down into the cargo area.
Jack Reacher 01 - Killing Floor
1
She stared at him in the passing light of the street lamps.
Captivity
2
Lily's passing light-heartedness sank beneath a renewed sense of failure.
The House of Mirth
3
To fall in love with a passing light on the horizon, madness cannot reach to that pitch.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
4
A passing light shone upon her.
Robert Elsmere
5
The glimpse which Jacopo obtained, by that passing light, was the last look he had of his father's countenance.
The Bravo: A Tale
1
The dimmed headlights of the two idling cars poured onto the ground.
Anthropology of an american girl: a novel
2
Once, just once, he caught the glow of dimmed headlights falling on the slope farthest from him.
Starr, of the Desert
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.
Piccadilly Jim
1
Ereko studied the vessels' low beam, their simple square sail configuration.
Return of the Crimson Guard
2
She came through the door, her dark hair almost touching the low beam.
Cross of St. George
3
Down another ladder, to the orlop, where Bolitho had to duck beneath each low beam.
Honour This Day
4
The headlights died back to low beam and the truck rolled forward and stopped again.
Nothing to lose
5
Above her was a naked lightbulb, some dead insects, a low beam covered in cobwebs.
East of the sun
1
In the passing beam of my flashlight, geometric patterns of shadow and light leaped off the crane tracks.
Fear nothing
2
And they have said that thy passing beams have illumined their fugitive life.
The Confession of a Child of the Century — Volume 2
3
Stripped of makeup, the brow and lashes flared white in the passing beams.
Death du Jour
4
'Twas the passing beam, ere the sun goes down.-
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