lighthouse

Example Sentences

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Tourists stroll along the waterfront and gather for shorter excursions - to Isla de los Estados, home to the famous "end of the world" lighthouse, or along the Beagle Channel.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

This makes the system behave like a flashing cosmic lighthouse.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2026

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

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025

And I didn’t wake until I heard the lighthouse siren singing in the distance and saw the flash of a rocket shot off from Lookout Station, and knew a ship was going down.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk