lighthouse

Example Sentences

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With Sea Pines’ iconic red and white striped lighthouse, playground and cute shops, the vacation vibe is inescapable.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

This makes the system behave like a flashing cosmic lighthouse.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 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

The Maritime & Coastguard Agency broadcasted warnings to ships in the Solent after the containers came off cargo ship the Baltic Klipper near the Nab tower lighthouse, off Bembridge.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025

She’d come down the strait plotting soundings as she went, but the pilot would not put his faith in this, and at 0126 hours that morning, in heavy fog, had radioed the lighthouse for assistance.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson