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Meanings of passing 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 "dim light"
Examples for "dim light"
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.
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 passing light in English
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.
6
Far away a white-walled cottage glimmered against the fell: the pools at their feet shone in the weird, passing light.
7
No passing light in her eyes betrayed that she had caught the reflection of the thought that lay behind them.
8
Occasionally some passing light showed her the girl's pallid profile-slightlyfrowning brow, and pinched lips-againstthe dark lining of the car.
9
Once, and he had thought it a passing light mood, when he had let down the bars for her to come in.
10
Then the mind fell into a whirlwind of half-articulate debate, from the darkness of which emerged two scenes-fragments-setclearin a passing light of memory.
11
A general recurring pattern was developing as more and more regions hosted an occasional passing light, indicating the emergence and disappearance of another spacefaring civilization.
12
She watched the passing lights through the windscreen as they passed out of town towards Cap-d'Ail.
13
Through them, Richard could see the rattling darkness and the passing lights of the Underground tunnels.
14
His grey eyes trapped the passing lights.
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"I didn't mean it so," she answered, impulsively, and by the passing light of a gas-lamp I caught a glimpse of her beaming, innocent face.