lighthouse
Example Sentences
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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
“Seems to me we have lighthouses right here in the U.S.A.”
From Literature
Even at a distance it shone like a lighthouse.
From Literature
“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.”
From Literature
A short hike to the beach afforded views of the starkly angular lighthouse known as the Charleston Light.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
