noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
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He can see car headlights a few hundred feet below.
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Southern species often sit in dirt roads or sandy tracks and appear in car headlights .
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It crept round the corners of the buildings and hung in the doorways and fled in ragged wisps from the car headlights .
■ VERB
catch
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She said she felt like a rabbit caught in the headlights and her teeth felt too big for her mouth.
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Gore reacted like a rabbit caught in the headlights .
see
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He can see car headlights a few hundred feet below.
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Sometimes, you could go out and see the headlights like shooting stars.
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He said he heard a car engine racing behind him and turned round to see headlights .
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In the tipping, he saw the headlights of a car pulling up under the canopy out front.
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He heard a crunch or two and saw the headlights where he knew there wasn't a road.
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She glanced in the rear-view mirror and saw the headlights of the traffic behind her.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dim your headlights/lights
dip your headlights/lights
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He put his foot on the accelerator and dipped his headlights.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And suddenly there was action - the van roared into reverse, rushing away from them, its headlights on full beam.
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He caught something-a woman-in the headlights, standing at the roadside with a suitcase.
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I feel the scything headlights sweep towards this orchard sanctuary.
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It was that hour of dusk when the streetlights and headlights come on but make little difference.
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One is prone to dousing the headlights accidentally while signaling.
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The Dodge mounted the kerb, headlights suddenly stabbing out on full beam.
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The other jeeps pulled up and drove alongside Lampard, all their headlights full on, searching for aircraft.