How to Use high beam in a Sentence

high beam

noun
Definition of high beamnext
  • The car's headlights were on high beam.
  • Turn off your high beams.
  • The history is palpable in the knots of the old logs and high beams of the great room.
    — Sharyn Alden, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 May 2018
  • The Elantra flashed its high beams while tailgating his car.
    — Evan MacDonald, cleveland, 26 Feb. 2020
  • That's why we're told to turn off our high beams, and to slow down instead, when driving through a dense fog.
    — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 12 May 2020
  • At night, drive with headlights on high beam and watch for eyes reflecting the light.
    — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 25 June 2018
  • Owen almost always awoke before the sun and was known for doing yard work by the high beams of his car.
    — courant.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Simply set the high beam when hiking the trail and adjust to the low beam while making camp or reading in your tent.
    — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Those headlights were set to high beam out of the gates Friday, as the Wolves scored the first 11 points and led by 22 before even eight minutes had elapsed.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Check to make sure the air conditioning and the lights (especially the high beams) work well.
    — Jo Yurcaba, Woman's Day, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Before shooting, the gunmen flashed their high beams, parked their car and emerged from the vehicle.
    — David Ovalle, miamiherald, 15 June 2018
  • Turn on high beams at night when there is no oncoming traffic.
    — Mary Wisniewski, chicagotribune.com, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The headlight is excellent, wide and bright with a high beam that reaches farther out than most.
    — Joe Michaud, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • On Friday, the 22-year old became the first gymnast to attempt and land a double-double dismount off of a high beam.
    — Hollie Silverman, CNN, 12 Aug. 2019
  • MacIver likens increasing eye size in the water to switching on high beams in the fog in an attempt to see farther ahead.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine, 7 Mar. 2017
  • Use high beams to see farther, but not when there's oncoming traffic.
    — Fiza Pirani, ajc, 7 June 2018
  • That car is even available with a US-legal version of Audi's clever laser high beam headlights.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 24 June 2019
  • To further enhance the front light signature, available LED headlights are utilized for both the low and high beams.
    — Terry Troy, cleveland.com, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Just before midnight somewhere in the western United States, a white pickup truck’s high beams light up a stretch of dark highway.
    — Wired, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Also much faster than a human could switch off an ordinary high beam headlight.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Police observed Perez driving with his headlights on high beam and not dimming them as traffic passed.
    — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Recent photos of the actress on set showed her doing her own stunts, which included dangling from high beams and leaping mid-air like a badass.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 July 2017
  • For drivers desperate to keep them off car hoods, the large animals remain the primary reason to still use high beams.
    — George Mathis, AJC.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Another car with its high beams on pulled up behind them, according to police.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • She was also cited for obstructing a crosswalk, driving left of center and failure to dim her high beams.
    — John Benson, cleveland.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Fiber lasers are known for high beam quality and the ability to stand jarring movement during transport.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2019
  • Flames already licked a second home on the cul-de-sac, which was choked with thick gray smoke, punctured only by the high beams of cars that sped out of the capillaries of small streets that crisscross the hillsides here.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Lyda Rhoan, the driver of a Ford Focus, called 911 to report that someone in a white car following closely with its high beams on fired four gunshots at her car.
    — oregonlive.com, 10 June 2019
  • The real woman herself is hardly visually referenced in the video, only shown sitting in the driver’s seat as Puth dances happily in the glow of the high beams.
    — Allison Stubblebine, Billboard, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Despite her dislike of her instructor and her fear of the high beam that ended her own gymnastic career, my daughter remained attached to the team.
    — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2021

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