Examples of high beam in a Sentence
The car's headlights were on high beam.
Turn off your high beams.
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All 2025 4Runner models feature Toyota Safety Sense 3.0 with forward collision warning, lane departure alert and keeping, full-speed adaptive cruise control, lane tracing, road sign assist and auto high beams.
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Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
As a further safety measure, the i8’s high beams will operate only above roughly 40 km/h, to preclude the possibility of someone’s staring into a static light.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Oct. 2013
More strikingly, people all over the county were actually seeing mountain lions, not only in their high beams at night but in broad daylight, with increasing regularity: crossing the road, loafing at the edge of a fenced field, skirting a campground.
—Malcolm Brooks Malcolm Hillgartner Krish Seenivasan Zak Mouton, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Use your high beams along dark roadways if there is no oncoming traffic.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2024
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Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
As a further safety measure, the i8’s high beams will operate only above roughly 40 km/h, to preclude the possibility of someone’s staring into a static light.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Oct. 2013
More strikingly, people all over the county were actually seeing mountain lions, not only in their high beams at night but in broad daylight, with increasing regularity: crossing the road, loafing at the edge of a fenced field, skirting a campground.
—Malcolm Brooks Malcolm Hillgartner Krish Seenivasan Zak Mouton, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Use your high beams along dark roadways if there is no oncoming traffic.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2024
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“High beam.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/high%20beam. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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