lighthouse
Example Sentences
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Even at a distance it shone like a lighthouse.
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“Oh. Uh, yeah. There used to be a lighthouse here until it burned down in the early nineteen hundreds. And now it’s a motel. Go figure.”
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A short hike to the beach afforded views of the starkly angular lighthouse known as the Charleston Light.
The retired river-fleet captain joined the class about a year ago and says he likes making miniature lighthouses because they remind him of his former life on the river.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.