When trains are waiting on side tracks, clear of main track, or on the end of double track, headlights of engines must be covered.
Enginemen must keep the headlights of their engines in good order, and when running after dark, or when storms, fogs or other causes render it necessary, they must be lighted.
They were the headlights of a stationary motor, and she heard the purr of the engine turning dead slow.
The headlights went out suddenly, and two figures approached, one of them carrying the tail lamp of the car.
Flounderingly he got to his feet, the headlights throwing a weird radiance about him.
It was a gruesome business, feeling about in that dark cabin, not knowing what awful thing the headlightsmight rest upon.
At the thought, Phil's breath quickened and he searched rapidly about the cabin, feeling with his hands where the headlights did not pierce the gloom.
When they passed beyond the glow of the headlights they were plunged into darkness and for a moment Dave could see nothing.
Hundreds of pairs of eyes were turned their way as their headlights cut through the night.
A pair of headlights was rapidly approaching along the road that led off to the right.
The English youth continued to stare fixedly through the windshield at the glow of the headlights on the road, but his body seemed to straighten up, and there was a less depressed air about him.
Hedged by black stems called trees, rows of withered houses and dim bread shops propositioned rough headlights along a promenade of ice stalks and careening streetlamps.
He drew up under the arching elms with the glare of their headlights focussed upon the closed garage doors.
Dorothy had been listening intently, her eyes on the grotesque shadows cast by their headlights upon the stone fences along the road; now she turned and stared at him in astonishment.
If she had, I'd have seen it with my headlights smack on her.
Followed by the others, he deployed across the road, and an instant later the bright glare of the car's headlights enveloped them.
Ralph took one of the oilheadlights out of its socket, and, taking it to the back of the car, found the chauffeur scratching his head over the tire.
Of course they had the headlights turned on at full force, and Hugh at the wheel found no difficulty in keeping the middle of the road.
Indeed, the brilliant headlights of the big car illuminated a radius of considerable size ahead of them and around.
Rick turned the jeep, and the headlightspicked out a name cut in the concrete pillars: Casa Guevara.
In the back-scattered light from its headlights they saw that Connel was the driver.
He had turned on the headlights as they approached the fishing village; he kept them on.
Just then a car drove into the driveway, stopping in front of the office, its merciless headlights on me.
The beam of the headlights of cars turning around in the restaurant parking lot shone between the cracks of our Venetian blinds, casting stripes of light against the wall, and made me think cars were coming into our driveway.
Months of experience have taught me the difference in angle and appearance between the stripes cast by the headlights of cars going into Moe's and those driving into our driveway).
And if I looked downward, I couldn't see the flash of headlights on the highway.
Whenever I saw headlights of a car coming slowly I told Grant, and he put down his paper to go out after it.
I seldom was able to finish two consecutive sentences before the twinkle of headlights dragged me away from the printed words.
The first car turned into our driveway, itsheadlights silhouetting Grant's tall slender form.
The screen went to pieces as the headlights went out, and the frightened Rainer and the extremely angry chauffeuse stared at each other in the dim glow of the side-lamps.
The car whirled round a corner, its speed regulated more by the state of the driver's temper than by good judgment, and the headlights shone full on a heavy farm cart which lay right across the road.
The headlights were leaping out all over the harbor.
The inner harbor was full; in the dark, thick air bowsprits nodded and swung sleepily, black outlines against little glimmering swathes of grayish-yellow cut by the headlights of anchored vessels.
The headlightsin the harbor looked far off, and of the town not a glimmer could be seen.
In the harbor the anchored fleets flung out their headlights above a tossing sea.
Not me," said Shoddy, steering for the bed with his headlights of white-hot filament and red-hot cigar.
He can tell Albert I shall be ready as soon as he is, but to take his headlights and fill up with petrol.
Twin headlightslit long wedges of London mud; two pairs of goblin goggles mounted up behind them--one sent with the coat and a message that was more than law.
Spike Walters saw them coming--saw their headlights splitting the frigid night.
A train had just come into the yards and there were switch engines puffing here and there--I was apprehensive that one of their headlights would pick me up.
Electric headlightsare applied to locomotives so that the engineer may have a clear view of the track for enough ahead of the train to enable him to protect the company's property in his charge.
Almost immediately the headlights shone upon an open space under some chestnut trees.
The car's headlights showed no road ahead--only the closely-cropped grass of a pasture with here and there clumps of brush and weeds.
They hit the dirt side by side as the headlightsswung around.
The headlights swung around to catch them, but this time they did not care.
Barrack’s headlights were close enough to outline them clearly.
It swerved to the right after it had gone only a few feet, and its headlightsilluminated the barge in a wash of light.
He started it, turned the headlights on, and drove slowly out into the open and up to the shack.
He switched the headlights off about halfway to the shack, and parked it a hundred or so yards away from it and walked the rest.
The smooth drumming grew louder; suddenly topping a rise the two headlights of an automobile flashed into his eyes.
Terry's car swung about a curve in the road herheadlights for a brief instant aiding the moon in garishly illuminating a scene to be remembered.
Her headlights cut through the shadows; Terry's little body stiffened a bit and her hands tensed on her wheel; her flying speed was lessened an almost negligible trifle; she made the turn and opened the throttle.
Her headlights blinded him one moment; he heard the warning blast of her horn; he entertained briefly the suspicion that she was going to refuse to stop.
The alley gleamed with light now, from the first car's headlights shining down it.
There were two cars on that street, at either end of the block, their headlights shining toward each other, moving slowly to trap him in the middle.
Here and there the huge headlights of a car shone on the roadway, magnifying every rut in the asphalt, and bringing out strange, vivid shades in the grass and the hydrangea bushes.
The level rays of the sun were doing to the water just what the headlights of the motors had done to the road; they were enlarging every ripple and edging the deep purple-blue with yellow light.
In the distance appeared the headlightsof an automobile rapidly approaching.
A moment later the motor was purring softly, and with the headlights dimmed, the big sixty horse-power car slid out of the garage and started silently down the driveway.
Mr. Brewster cut off the headlights as he spoke, but oddly, the reflection persisted for a few moments more.
You can see our headlights reflected in its windows.
Stepping to the car, she switched on the headlights and held the paper in its brilliant beam.
The fog was not so dense after the cab left the docks, but the entire river valley was blanketed, making it necessary for automobiles to proceed with headlights turned on.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "headlights" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
