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Headlights in sentence

22 examples of Headlights in a sentence

It will react by freezing, sort of like a deer in the headlights.
Cars have LED-based headlights, LED-based back lights, and cars can communicate with each other and prevent accidents in the way that they exchange information.
Now take that car off road at night and remove the windscreen wipers, the windscreen, the headlights and the brakes.
So, the farmers go out at night with heavily armed jeeps, and shine the headlights, and anything that doesn't look like a sheep, you shoot.
And then when it's not using it, it actually can roll it down into its head just like the headlights on your Lamborghini.
And this fish, which is one of my favorites, has three headlights on each side of its head.
As someone who has spent his entire career trying to be invisible standing in front of an audience is a cross between an out-of-body experience and a deer caught in the headlights, so please forgive me for violating one of the TED commandments by relying on words on paper, and I only hope I'm not struck by lightning bolts before I'm done.
It's got a fan, it's got headlights for warmth, it's got door chimes for alarm, it runs off a car battery.
I watched this film with a sort of dangerous fascination, like a hedgehog trapped in the headlights.
One actor even reminded me of what a deer must look like when staring into a car's headlights!
All the characters seem rendered immobile by personal issues - rather like deer in headlights.
A smile would break out on my face when the screen showed me a criminal in a dark alley's facial expressions when the Taxi of Justice's headlights illuminated upon his face.
That blank stare looks like a really vicious deer caught in the headlights.
Instead of being a real person, she does a wonderful impersonation of a deer caught in the headlights.
I really knew going into it that I wasn't going to get the inside jokes so I wasn't surprised when I sat with the deer in the headlights stare.
It has the great triangular shaped headlights.
The director has a cameo appearance which says it all: his acting "skills" come strictly from the "deer in the headlights" school of acting.
yes,the two are seen off by a senior officer who is driven up to their plane in a car with headlights blazing; presumably the Yanks didn't think the blackout applied to them.)
What with US army personnel parading around London in uniform before the US had entered the war; the stock footage of the 1970s era London Ambulance rushing the agent to the hospital; the "military" DC3 in civilian paint scheme; the Rolls driving around with headlights full on in the blackout; the "French Port" with lights blazing, also in the blackout; the "Social Club" in London that had both male and female members; the two "heroes" jumping out of the aircraft without a jump-master; and... Well, I could go on and on but I think you get the point.
Forsythe's chatty buddy, who sounds like he's auditioning for a cartoon voice-over job, gets chummy with a senator and his wife while Forsythe has a confrontation with every person he talks to (he's far too intense and focused an actor to relax and be easy, and these fluffball surroundings have him looking like a deer in the headlights).
Preston Tucker had a rocket ship of a car with turnable headlights and seat belts; Mr. Coppola had great movies about wiretappers, the nightmare of war, and a silly bit of off-beat stuff about lovers in Vegas.
President Barack Obama, elected with a great deal of goodwill and hope in 2008, is now caught like a deer in the headlights.