How to use lighthouse in a sentence

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• From the top of the lighthouse you can just see the mainland.From the entry from
• The lighthouse that you can see is on the mainland.From the entry on
• The wave went clean over the old lighthouse.From the entry clean
• There is a lighthouse on Portland Bill.From the entry bill
• Lighthouses are usually the first aids seen when making landfall.From the entry landfall
• A lighthouse is the classic example of a public good because it is difficult to prevent a ship (a free rider) from using it.From the entry free rider
• They saw the light near the cape, which they mistook that night for a lighthouse, although it is in fact a light buoy.From the entry light buoy
• In Kinman, the Tungting Tao and Peiting Tao, lighthouses were constructed.(Can we date this quote?), “Marine Lighthouse Section”, in 海關博物館 [Customs Museum], archived from the original on 17 Oct 2021. From the entry Tungting
• In addition, in Matsu, lighthouses were set up on Tungchu Tao, Tungyin Tao and Wuchiu.(Can we date this quote?), “Marine Lighthouse Section”, in Customs Museum, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2021, Museum Guide. From the entry Tungchu
• Crest — Rising from the top of a lighthouse argent irradiated or a martlet azure.2020 April 20, Susan Morris, Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019, eBook Partnership, →ISBN, page 2780. From the entry irradiated
• The lighthouse is an important landmark and tourist area in Tungting Tao.2016 April 25, “Tungting Tao Lighthouse”, in Maritime and Port Bureau, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020. From the entry Tungting
• The silver shikhara of the Eklingji Temple shone like the beam from a lighthouse.1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 333. From the entry shikhara
• Ride past Kenting to Oluanpi to see coral formations and the lighthouse.1994, Roger Grigsby, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China's East Coast (China by Bike), The Mountaineers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 101. From the entry Oluanpi
• It came floating like a tethered cloud past the little white toy-like lighthouse at the pierhead.1976, Angela Carter, “My Father's House”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 21. From the entry pierhead
• Billy Pughs were used at many lighthouses.2008, Betty S. Veronico, Lighthouses of the Bay Area, Arcadia Publishing, page 42. From the entry Billy Pugh
• Oluanpi is known for its coral gardens and lighthouse.1994 July, Robert Storey, “South-West Taiwan”, in Taiwan - A Travel Survival Kit, 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 229…. From the entry Oluanpi
• They could see the lighthouse shining on Quarantine Island, and the green lights on the old coal hulks.1918 June, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Prelude”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company…. From the entry hulk
• An even more impressive nineteenth-century militarized lighthouse is found on the Taiwanese Wuchiu island, located just 20 nautical miles off the Chinese coast.2022, Veronica della Dora, Where Light in Darkness Lies: The Story of the Lighthouse, →ISBN, →OCLC. From the entry nautical mile
• So many lighthouses in the world!” and he had drawn a picture of himself hanging by the neck, with x's in place of his eyes.2014, Elizabeth Fama, Plus One (Young Adult Fiction), →ISBN, page 75. From the entry Wednesnight
• The large brass plaque was the only part of the lighthouse that had escaped the corrosive sea for far too many years.2014, Glenn M. Cosh, “Flashback”, in The Green Flash, Zest Publishing, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry constructioner
• A mile or so down the beach from the lighthouse I stopped by a big rock and told Nicky to pop a squat.2008, W. Shane Wilson, Destiny's Key. From the entry pop a squat
• Like a small farm, the lighthouse compound had its chattering of chicks, pace of donkeys, troop of horses, and fold of sheep.2007, Elinor De Wire, The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, Pineapple Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 200. From the entry pace
• Built to function as a light, a chapel and a royal residence, the tower stood for many years as the apogée of lighthouse development.2001, Samuel Willard Crompton, Michael J. Rhein, The Ultimate Book of Lighthouses: History, Legend, Lore, Design, Technology, Romance, San…. From the entry apogée
• So come on all you lighthouse keepers, school-dinner ladies and lion tamers, send for your applications forms from: Busman’s Holiday, Granada Television, Manchester M60 9EA.1986 January 18, “Weekend TV Post: Roll up for a Busman’s Holiday…”, in Lynne St Claire, editor, Evening Post, number 33,403, page 9. From the entry school-dinner lady
• On the shore were the remains of an antediluvian forest with ugly black stumps showing, and further up an old stubby deserted lighthouse.1947, Malcolm Lowry, chapter 1, in Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock. From the entry antediluvian
• For a moment she saw the coast of Sumatra edged by the phosphorescence of waves, and crowned by lighthouses, still sending forth their disregarded beams.1909, E.M. Forster, “I”, in The Machine Stops. From the entry phosphorescence
• Rapidly rotating dead stars, pulsars are so named because as they spin, they release beams of electromagnetic radiation across space that appear to pulse like celestial lighthouses.2023 August 30, Ashley Strickland, “Astronomers solve the puzzle of an unusual pulsing dead star”, in CNN. From the entry pulse
• The Tungchu Tao Lighthouse in Matsu is a national historic building, the first granite lighthouse built in Taiwan, which has survived the shifts of contemporary history.2016 February 14, “Matsu’s Tungchu Tao Lighthouse stands tests of time”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14…. From the entry Tungchu
• A lighthouse crowns a lofty cliff on the north-east extremity, and though of doubtful value as a sealight forms a good mark for entering Clew Bay.1993, J. F. Quinn, History of Mayo, volume 2, page 138. From the entry sealight
• It was a gentle day as we drove under the lighthouse, the modern hotels leading down to their beach umbrellas sheltering the browning bikini bodies intent upon their drinks.1991, John Hayes, Face the Music: A Sailor's Story, Pentland Press, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry bikini body
• The Aerophore is inevitably to be installed at countless danger points all along the sea and lake coasts, lighthouses, at the mouths of rivers, harbors, etc.1950, Lee De Forest, Father of radio: the autobiography of Lee de Forest, page 260. From the entry aerophore
• Lighthouse keeping is narrated by an orphan named Silver, who on the death of her parents is adopted by Pew, a blind lighthousekeeper in the imaginary Scottish town of Salts.2006, Philip Tew, Rod Mengham, British Fiction Today. From the entry lighthousekeeper

Meaning of lighthouse

1. noun A tower or other structure exhibiting a light or lights to warn or guide sailors.

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Questions about lighthouse in a sentence

How do you use lighthouse in a sentence?

Lighthouse is used as a noun. For example: “In the history of lighthouses, English civil engineer John Smeaton made a significant contribution to the design of them.”

What is a short sentence with lighthouse?

“Billy Pughs were used at many lighthouses.”

What does lighthouse mean?

Lighthouse means a tower or other structure exhibiting a light or lights to warn or guide sailors.