guiding star
Example Sentences
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In one scene, a character compares the guiding star in the Christmas story with the stars that guide slaves on the Underground Railroad.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 4, 2018
For three decades, Mary Ferrell has been a guiding star for those who have devoted a part of their lives to pursuing the truth about the Kennedy assassination.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2018
The aesthetic is an amalgam of the Maysles brothers, Tennessee Williams, Samuel Beckett and Charles Addams, but the inimitable style of the Beale women is the creators’ guiding star.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2016
While today's entrepreneurs might take their inspiration from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Hampson's own guiding star was a self-storage facility in Los Angeles that he happened to drive past in 1977.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2014
The farther Roz swam, the higher the guiding star climbed in the sky, until at last it was directly overhead.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
