How to Use low beam in a Sentence

low beam

noun

• The car's headlights were on low beam.
• Turn on your low beams.
• Sometimes you were caught in the canyon fog, and the road stretched as long as your low beams.
  — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
• The low beams are far too dim and sit too low for safety.
  — Scott Sturgis, Philly.com, 12 July 2018
• If driving, slow down, use low beam lights and leave plenty of distance ahead of you.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 17 Sep. 2021
• But, while driving, the lights work just like standard high beam, low beam headlights.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024
• 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
• But that still means driving much – or most – of the time using only low beam headlights that don’t reach very far.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 15 Feb. 2024
• And when driving in snowy conditions, put your headlights on the low beam setting.
  — Nerd Wallet, cleveland, 20 Dec. 2020
• Allow more distance between you and the vehicle ahead of you, and have your low beam headlights on.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 8 Feb. 2022
• The automaker says the running lights will keep working if the driver moves the headlight switch from auto to the low beam position.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2020
• Frequently, one — sometimes the left, other times the right and occasionally both — of the low beams will go out.
  — Ray Magliozzi, The Seattle Times, 1 Sep. 2017
• The weather service is urging people across the greater Houston region to slow down on the road and use low beam headlights or fog lamps to aid in travel.
  — Samantha Ketterer, Houston Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2018
• At night, keep your headlights on low beam to avoid glare, and leave at least double the typical following distance between yourself and the car in front of you.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 6 Jan. 2022
• The National Weather Service is urging people to slow down and use low beams while driving.
  — Samantha Ketterer, Houston Chronicle, 14 Feb. 2018
• Ricks urged drivers in the New Orleans area to use caution over the coming 24 hours, including driving with headlights on a low beam and at a slower speed.
  — Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• The weather service issued a dense fog advisory through 11 a.m. Thursday and warned drivers to be alert and keep headlights on low beam.
  — Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com, 25 Mar. 2021
• When driving in foggy conditions, leave the low beam headlights burning.
  — oregonlive, 5 Dec. 2019
• Night shift: The LED headlights illuminated the road nicely, although the cutoff was a little steep at the top, so distance vision was a little hard on low beam.
  — Scott Sturgis, Philly.com, 21 Oct. 2017
• How to drive in foggy conditions: The National Weather Service recommends two things: slowing down on the road and using your low beams in your car.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2024
• The cornering lamps enhance visibility at low and high speeds, as well as when changing lanes or when reversing, and increase the foreground pattern width of the low beams by 60 percent.
  — Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 28 Apr. 2018
• Make sure your headlights are on and use low beams to avoid blinding other drivers.
  — Elissa Jorgensen, Dallas Morning News, 27 Jan. 2026
• Use your low beam headlights, slow down, and be prepared for periods of hazardous driving conditions.
  — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 16 Jan. 2026
• Drivers should slow down, turn on low beam headlights and pull over if possible.
  — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 29 Dec. 2025