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
A short hike to the beach afforded views of the starkly angular lighthouse known as the Charleston Light.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
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
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