lighthouse
Example Sentences
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This makes the system behave like a flashing cosmic lighthouse.
From Science Daily
I walk a frozen Bothnian Gulf at Nallikari, an obscured lighthouse, a delinquent lifeguard stand, and makeshift saunas stand on white expanse like archaeology.
From Salon
“But he was kind of one of the lighthouses of integrity and common sense and spoke truth to power, but also got the powers to speak to one another.”
They spin rapidly and generate intense magnetic fields, producing focused beams of radio waves that sweep across space like the beam of a lighthouse.
From Science Daily
“Seems to me we have lighthouses right here in the U.S.A.”
From Literature
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