lighthouse
Example Sentences
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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
That leaves the Fed’s deliberations comparable to “trying to bring a boat to shore in the pitch black and having the lighthouse go dark,” Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin said this week.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025
The guide started talking about whaling as everyone poured off the bus to gaze at the lighthouse.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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