LIGHTHOUSE in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for LIGHTHOUSE, such as:

1. A lighthouse was flashing in the distance.
2. The light flashed out from the little lighthouse.
3. Out on the cape is a fine lighthouse which we had admired as we came up the coast on the ship.
4. They erected a lighthouse on the promontory to warn approaching ships of their nearness to the shore.
5. They had left the Ile Ratonneau, where the lighthouse stood, on the right, and were now opposite the Point des Catalans.

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 Meanings and Examples of LIGHTHOUSE
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lighthouse
 n.  a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships
Classic Sentence:
1  On the near side, the sea-wall makes an elbow crooked inversely, and its end too has a lighthouse.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  Outside the harbour on this side there rises for about half a mile a great reef, the sharp edge of which runs straight out from behind the south lighthouse.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  Lucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, I think, to some dear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the lighthouse, and frightened the wits out of us.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  The Chapman lighthouse, a three-legged thing erect on a mud-flat, shone strongly.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
5  They had left the Ile Ratonneau, where the lighthouse stood, on the right, and were now opposite the Point des Catalans.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If.
6  At seven o'clock in the evening all was ready, and at ten minutes past seven they doubled the lighthouse just as the beacon was kindled.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
7  When the rain came with it and dashed against the windows, I thought, raising my eyes to them as they rocked, that I might have fancied myself in a storm-beaten lighthouse.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIX
8  See what a real corner of the world it occupies; how it stands there, away off shore, more lonely than the Eddystone lighthouse.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. Nantucket.
Example Sentence:
1  Out on the cape is a fine lighthouse which we had admired as we came up the coast on the ship.
2  A lighthouse was flashing in the distance.
3  They erected a lighthouse on the promontory to warn approaching ships of their nearness to the shore.
4  The light flashed out from the little lighthouse.