(n.) A light, with a powerful reflector, placed at the head of a locomotive, or in front of it, to throw light on the track at night, or in going through a dark tunnel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Beyond the narrow beam of our headlights, it was pitch black.
(2) It was a moment when Google was suddenly caught in the headlights.
(3) They saw the headlights, but paralysed by fear, instead of running, they stood there.
(4) 10.12pm BST More from Howard Amos at the scene : Howard Amos (@howardamos) A hundred metres from trade union building 8 corpses are being examined by medics and police in headlights of car.
(5) "When you read the book, he sounds more sarcastic and snarky, closer to Holden Caulfield ," he says, "but with Dustin Hoffman it feels genuinely rabbit-in-the-headlights."
(6) Like rabbits caught in headlights they have no plan of practical action to save civilian lives .
(7) The motor-ambulance was a new thing in war to me then, and it seemed strange to see the great eyes of the headlights loom through the dark and pick their way through the crunching snow to the hospital door.
(8) It was a lovely London moment, which reminded me of those sumptuous shots in Hollywood films, of Fifth Avenue in the snow, or of a night-time LA lit up by headlights like a circuit board.
(9) A 66-year-old defence solicitor said: "The judges froze in the headlights like frightened rabbits, and refused to consider the individual cases that came before them because they were paralysed with fear."
(10) As transport minister, as well as handling the new M25, he campaigned for mandatory dipped headlights after dark and advocated the compulsory wearing of seat belts.
(11) They were determined that their presence would stop potential rigging, saying, “I am waiting for the count because I want to see it with my own eyes.” When darkness fell, they brought their own generators or switched on car headlights.
(12) James Riach Bournemouth complete £9m record signing of Wolves striker Benik Afobe Read more Bournemouth Ins Lewis Grabban (Norwich City, £7m), Benik Afobe (Wolves, £9m), Juan Iturbe (Roma, loan), Rhoys Wiggins (Sheffield Wednesday, £200,000), Marius Adamonis (FK Atlantas, loan) Outs Jayden Stockley (Exeter City, loan), Yann Kermorgant (Reading, loan), Lee Tomlin (Bristol City, loan), Elliott Ward (Blackburn, undisc), Alessandro Cannataro (released), Tomas Andrade (released), Ryan Allsop (Wycombe Wanderers, loan) While the Argentinian winger Juan Iturbe still looks like a rabbit in the headlights at times, Benik Afobe, the club’s record signing from Wolves, has settled quickly, scoring two goals in as many matches.
(13) After the group moves on, we drive back though near-darkness without headlights.
(14) Each patient had seen a definite red hue to lights (moon, automobile headlights, etc.)
(15) These include, in addition to the rigid endoscopes, the fiberoptic headlight, cable, indirect laryngoscope, nasopharyngoscope, flexible laryngoscope, flexible esophagoscope and flexible bronchoscope.
(16) Expectations are high.” A cavalcade of motorbikes and cars with their headlights on and horns blaring paraded through the streets of Kano, northern Nigeria’s biggest city, AFP reported.
(17) My daughter’s life has gone now.” And June found herself caught in the media headlights.
(18) St Louis, who ought to have seen enough World Series action in the past decade to be prepared, were like rabbits caught in the headlights of Fenway Park, giving up errors and runs.
(19) It was midnight in Ghor when the Taliban appeared on the road in the headlights of the minivans, waving at the vehicles to stop.
(20) Many are alone – solitary figures backlit by the stream of headlights moving into the city.
Lighthouse
Definition:
(n.) A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.
Example Sentences:
(1) On my last day, I drive to Cape Point and walk up to the lighthouse.
(2) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
(3) 1980 was his best year for opera: the Cologne company (whose music director, John Pritchard, became a staunch supporter) brought Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte and Cimarosa's Il Matrimonio Segreto, Glasgow provided Berg's Wozzeck and Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen, and the festival itself produced a distinguished world premiere in Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse.
(4) • Park website Cape Disappointment state park Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cape Disappointment lighthouse.
(5) First lit in 1817, the lighthouse opened to visitors for day tours and overnight stays earlier this year and has superb coastal walks and beaches nearby.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dameon at North End Lake Port Elizabeth harbour to Cape Recife lighthouse (15km) .
(7) The beach itself is a long and fine one, with South Atlantic breezes cooling the heels of groups of novice surfers in wetsuits and ladies being massaged in the thatched treatment hut close to the lighthouse.
(8) After lunch, take a walk up to the lighthouse to see superb views of the coastline from the cliffs.
(9) Someone once described the Lighthouse Family ’s output as soul music for people who don’t like soul music, and May’s Boris punchlines are comedy for people who don’t like comedy.
(10) Other popular Mackintosh designs in his home town of Glasgow include the Lighthouse, the Willow Tearooms and House for an Art Lover in Bellahouston Park.
(11) Bowie was like a like a lighthouse that guided those people and made them feel it was alright to be different, to try things out and dye your hair and wear strange clothes.
(12) Clifford Newbold, an architect who was involved in the design of Milbank Tower and Dungeness Lighthouse, had hoped to restore the palace to its Georgian splendour, but he died last year.
(13) From the lighthouse I can see the entire span of False Bay, surely one of the greatest marine environments on earth – and a place still waiting for recognition.
(14) Look out for a cast-iron lighthouse, 6,000-year-old burial chambers, and Worms Head island.
(15) This set includes six mini-figures including the pilot, rescuer, "stricken people", two water cannons, a submarine, dinghy and lighthouse.
(16) But Lottie is also a pirate queen, a lighthouse keeper and a geeky robot girl – all inspired by real women such as computer programmer Ada Lovelace and lighthouse keeper Grace Darling, neither of which had to wear a pink uniform.
(17) Dating from 1863, the lighthouse is still operational and open for visits (€3 and 146 steps to the top) but is, curiously, now in the middle of the pine forest.
(18) I have to bake my own bread, home-school my children … and, of course, prepare the lighthouse for the celebrations.” The 400th anniversary will be marked with a televised “parade of sails” around the island.
(19) Rainy-day attractions include the alternative slot machines and eccentric inventions on Southwold Pier and the working lighthouse , which offers guided tours (adults £3.50, children £2.50).
(20) The route becomes untamed towards Pine Lodge, perfect for a live music jam at Ziggy’s , and the gravelly trip out to the Cape Recife point and lighthouse is surely worth the journey.