lodestone

How To Use lodestone In A Sentence

• It is the ideological lodestone of a political movement that has shoved the entire American political center to the right.
• Called the Countess of Westmorland's lodestone, it is a huge natural magnet. Welcome to the Museum Of Weird and Wonderful
• It holds a very sharp edge, and lodestone does not attract it.
• West also believes the musical genre of the blues is a philosophical lodestone for successful democracy.
• While snow has been the standard for purity since before Shakespeare, in the 15th century you would have been as right as an adamant, a lodestone that always pointed to North. Weatherwatch: right as rain
• There is of course more than just a visual resemblance at work here: Chateaubriand has within him an ideological lodestone perpetually inclining him toward the sacred grandeur of the East. G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow)
• The name lodestone comes from the old English meaning "way stone" because a sliver of iron rubbed with lodestone also becomes magnetised, and this is how the first compass needles were made. Weatherwatch: How does magnetite become magnetised?
• They floated a piece of lodestone, a naturally-occurring magnetic mineral, on a piece of wood in a bowl of water with its ‘poles’ horizontally opposite to one another so that it could rotate and line up with the Earth's poles.
• Geomagnetic measurements owe their beginning to an uncommon rock: lodestone.
• She was the deep, slumbrous lodestone which set all his bones glittering with the energy of relentless pride. The Plumed Serpent