[
US
/ˈɫaɪtˌhaʊs/
]
[ UK /lˈaɪthaʊs/ ]
[ UK /lˈaɪthaʊs/ ]
NOUN
- a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships
How To Use lighthouse In A Sentence
- It's like being a lighthouse keeper, without the view. Times, Sunday Times
- When like me you have chosen the tough and rugged regime of living in a lighthouse for two nights, you will know that getting your daily victuals can be a demanding task.
- Our lighthouses are as diverse as our towns.
- The Richards took over the Taranaki lighthouse in 1976 when previous keeper Charlie Mallowes died from a heart attack.
- I found many excellent blogs on lighthouses eg The Keeper's Blog, Old Salt Blog, Shed Some Light on Lighthouses Blog, New England Lighthouse Treasures, Montauk Point but few of them talked about heritage protection, de-manning, funding. Archive 2009-07-01
- To the north of our house is the ocean, and the lighthouse sits on a cliff above a pretty little inlet beach overlooking the ocean.
- Decades ago, lighthouses evolved into scenic anachronisms as the U.S. Coast Guard converted the sites still in use into fully automated navaids.
- In China, To the Lighthouse is equally favoured, but criticism tends to concentrate on its writing techniques, and many essays attempt to provide a feminist or deconstructionist interpretation.
- One by one they had taken waterproof oilskins and boots from the lighthouse; the last one had apparently locked the outer door behind him.
- As relaxed as the atmosphere is, there is a mute reminder of Poland's past in the landmark red-brick lighthouse at the promenade's western end.