lighthouse

Example Sentences

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His father was a lighthouse keeper, living in solitude on the Greek island of Kandelioussa for 16 years before entering a family-arranged marriage with his mother.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

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 • Mar. 8, 2026

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 • Feb. 17, 2026

The view from the Grade-II listed house across St Ives Bay to Godrevy lighthouse inspired Woolf to write To the Lighthouse, among other works.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

We pushed ourselves along the wreck until we reached the end, just a fifty-yard swim in open water to the lighthouse rocks.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs