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Example sentences for "beacon"

Lexicographically close words:
beached; beaches; beachhead; beaching; beachmen; beaconed; beacons; bead; beaded; beades
  1. At the Beacon was his betrothed bride, who was also anxious to see him.

  2. Only Bee, the next morning, drove over to the Beacon to give the servants there strict charges in regard to the girls and boys, and to bring little Lu back with her to Tanglewood.

  3. It was a long day's ride from the Beacon to Brudenell Hall.

  4. I wish to persuade you to join us at Beacon House.

  5. I can get fresh horses at several places on the road, and reach the Beacon before twelve o'clock at night.

  6. I climbed up the beacon tower; I looked well all round; the old hag was nowhere to be seen.

  7. Guided by sound philosophy, and without ever losing sight of the beacon of revelation, they have given equal satisfaction to the desires of both schools.

  8. Wal, ye see, Tom Beacon he told Ike Bacon about it, and Ike he told me.

  9. Besides, my light hat is a perfect beacon to lead them on in the night.

  10. As a shipwrecked man seizes a rotten plank in his desperation, so Gaston eagerly caught at the word "future," as a beacon in the gloomy darkness surrounding him.

  11. Beacon had got done looking at the dummy, and he dropped it on the table before Fulkerson, who pushed it away, apparently to free himself from partiality.

  12. Beacon disdained to ask an explanation, but he internally lowered his crest, while he continued to look at Fulkerson without changing his defiant countenance.

  13. It was long past sundown when we rounded the Ness point, and the beacon lights were streaming over the bay, but we reached the little quay at the end of the Anchor Close without any mishap.

  14. For eight full days and nights I kept on the same course, with a dull, leaden sky above and a mist creeping over the sea, and never a bit of land could I discover, nor any light, whether of beacon or of ship.

  15. The great keep was a flaming beacon against the dark; ten leagues away lord and vassal would see it, and say that Raoul the Bull of Valmont had met his deserts at last.

  16. How radiant each star, as the beacon afar, Giving promise of peace, or assurance in war!

  17. The Second Beacon Fired was published in Oct.

  18. John Goodwin replied to the booksellers in A fresh Discovery of the High Presbyterian Spirit, or the Quenching of "The Second Beacon Fired," published in Jan.

  19. While in others the gift of prophecy was very much like a farthing candle illuminating small corners of human destiny with prophetic gossip, in Savonarola it was like a mighty beacon shining far out for the warning and guidance of men.

  20. He has left you the crucifix, in remembrance of the heavenly warning--that it may be a beacon to you in the darkness.

  21. There was something grand about Mrs. Farrinder; it lifted one up to be with her: but there was a false note when she spoke to her young friend about the ladies in Beacon Street.

  22. But you must remember Beacon Street," Mrs. Farrinder subjoined.

  23. How did the ladies on Beacon Street feel about the ballot?

  24. Beacon street, I beg that you won't faint at this horrible disclosure!

  25. Tis far from the Beacon 'haunts of men,' far from the Garden, and uncommonly far from the Common.

  26. Had it not chanced that the watcher by the beacon on St. Abb's Head was a man of cool temperament, all Scotland had been buzzing that night like a hornets' nest.

  27. The man who was the first to fire his beacon on that 31st of January was a watcher at Home Castle.

  28. It stands like the statue of liberty, a beacon light to the tempest-tossed and wayfaring mariner and brother, pointing him the way to the haven of refuge, to the right living and right doing.

  29. For eighty years the light of Odd-Fellowship has burned before the world, a beacon to the lost, a comfort to the wanderer and a protection to the thoughtless.

  30. But when he does, he instantly kindles his beacon fire, and descending seizes his lance left leaning against one of the four posts, and springing upon his horse which stands fastened to another, gallops to the stanitza.

  31. Beacon answers to beacon from cliffs and hilltops.

  32. The opening of the tunnel was about a hundred yards north-west of the North Beacon of Sandinsel.

  33. There is a great beacon light on Passage Island, four miles off the end of Isle Royale.

  34. But on a night of wild storm song birds, driven off their course, seeing the beacon and thinking it a place of refuge, come racing in to dash out their lives against the thick glass of the light.

  35. We will build a beacon fire to let them know they are not alone.

  36. The fires which we light on Beacon Hill will be of congratulation and joy.

  37. This is Beacon Hill, the highest point of Boston, where in early days were lighted the beacon fires which flashed over the country.

  38. The beacon wasn't there; at least, I didn't see it.

  39. Returning to the head of the cove, I came to a sort of Calvary, it appeared to me, where navigators, carrying their cross, had each set one up as a beacon to others coming after.

  40. On the hill back of Port Tamar a small beacon had been thrown up, showing that some man had been there.

  41. If by a close shave only, still she carried me clear, though her boom actually hit the beacon rocks to leeward as she lugged on sail to clear the point.

  42. There are many beacon lights along the coast.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beacon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alarm; alert; backfire; beacon; beam; bell; blaze; bleachers; blind; bridge; brighten; buoy; burn; buzzer; combustion; conflagration; daze; dazzle; enlighten; fire; flame; flare; flash; flicker; floodlight; foghorn; gallery; gazebo; glance; glare; glint; glow; grandstand; guide; head; highlight; horn; ignition; illuminate; ingle; irradiate; kick; lap; lead; leer; light; lighten; lighthouse; lookout; loophole; luster; marker; nod; nudge; observatory; outlook; outstrip; overlook; pace; peephole; poke; precede; pylon; pyre; radiate; radiator; ringside; rocket; semaphore; shine; shoot; sign; signal; siren; spearhead; spotlight; tocsin; touch; tower; transmitter; watchtower; whistle; wigwag; wink