lighthouse

Example Sentences

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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

He imagines—and 4- to 7-year-olds see him do it—plucking a length of sunshine off the wall and using what appear to be jellied cubes of colored light to make the beams of his own lighthouse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

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

We rowed past the old lighthouse, tranquil in the distance, which only last night had been the scene of so many traumas.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs