lighthouse
Example Sentences
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That leaves the Fed’s deliberations comparable to “trying to bring a boat to shore in the pitch black and having the lighthouse go dark,” Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin said this week.
Photographer Michael Wake captured the Strawberry Moon rising over the lighthouse on Roker Pier in Sunderland.
From BBC
His father was a lighthouse keeper, his mother a concert pianist from New Zealand, and he recalled attending 25 schools in both the United States and New Zealand during his youth.
From Los Angeles Times
More than 150 lighthouses have been saved, including 81 transferred at no cost to local governments and nonprofit entities and about 70 sold at auction, raising more than $10 million for the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times
His father, who had immigrated from Denmark, was a maritime engineer and, for a time, the keeper of two lighthouses where the Wagners lived until Robin was 10.
From New York Times
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