high beam
or highbeam
an automobile headlight beam providing bright, long-range illumination of a darkened road and chiefly for use in driving in nonurban areas.
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Origin of high beam
1- Compare low beam.
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How to use high beam in a sentence
Think of it like auto high-beams on modern cars, except the high beams never actually shut off when an oncoming car comes around a corner.
Car headlights are getting a much-needed upgrade with the infrastructure act | Rob Stumpf | November 20, 2021 | Popular-ScienceSwitch off your high beams around other drivers, and your driving lights will turn off.
It’s like trying to look at the road while another car’s high beams are pointed in your direction.
We need to go to Venus as soon as possible | Neel Patel | September 16, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThere ensconcing themselves on a high beam, they soon forgot the cobwebs in the interest of the debate.
'That Very Mab' | May Kendall and Andrew LangPresently there was a glow of yellow light which illuminated the whole gymnasium and rested especially upon the high beam.
When Sarah Went to School | Elsie Singmaster
The cat curled himself in front of the fire, while the cock flew up on a high beam.
The Beacon Second Reader | James H. FassettThe older girls climbed the ladder to a high beam, and then would shoot off on to the soft hay far below.
Cricket at the Seashore | Elizabeth Westyn TimlowThe other bear—the one that fell from the high beam—had the handsomest black, glossy pelt I have ever seen.
A Busy Year at the Old Squire's | Charles Asbury Stephens
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