How To Use Lodestone In A Sentence
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It is the ideological lodestone of a political movement that has shoved the entire American political center to the right.
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Called the Countess of Westmorland's lodestone, it is a huge natural magnet.
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It holds a very sharp edge, and lodestone does not attract it.
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West also believes the musical genre of the blues is a philosophical lodestone for successful democracy.
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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
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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)
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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?
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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.
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Geomagnetic measurements owe their beginning to an uncommon rock: lodestone.
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She was the deep, slumbrous lodestone which set all his bones glittering with the energy of relentless pride.
The Plumed Serpent
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Santa Fe has been a lodestone for the study, idealization, and romanticization of the American Indian since the completion of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway.
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This is the lodestone, whose interesting properties have been known since antiquity.
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Create a social media "lodestone" within each of your marketing efforts.
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Her face was wrapped in the folds of her cloak, but I heard her whisper, as if to herself: 'No! no! That old hearth is not a lodestone.
The Filigree Ball
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Attendance at the Army War College (as well as the other senior service colleges) should remain the lodestone of the profession of arms.
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The Chinese developed a lodestone compass to indicate direction sometime in the 4th century BC.
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Lodestones are simply naturally occurring magnets composed of the magnetic mineral magnetite.
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Anyhow, some genius found out that a small needle brought in contact with the so-called lodestone, or magnetic ore, absorbs the qualities of the lodestone, and when placed on a pivot will always point to the north.
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The game broke down barriers, although the positive elements of "otherness" - the shared Judaism a lodestone - fostered a proprietary self-branding.
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Then there were real sparks as someone hit a lodestone, and a candle ignited in front of my face.
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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)
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As the epicenter of modern jazz, New York City has always been a magical lodestone, irresistibly attracting talented musicians at every stage of their development and careers.
Ralph A. Miriello: Contemporary Bassist & Composer Ben Allison Plays Carnegie Hall
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A person who is unaware of the phenomenon of magnetism could be fooled by a magician who presents lodestone as a ‘magic rock,’ perhaps as a formerly ordinary rock made magical by saying the word abracadabra.
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Why did lodestone have the power to attract certain metals?
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It is seen as a lodestone by the new urbanists, who think places should be for people rather than cars and megastores.
Times, Sunday Times
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For example, there is an interesting rock called lodestone.
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HOLC is too complicated to explain, and doesn't speak directly to the liquidity problem to make it some kind of lodestone for fighting the Paulson / Bush bill, which essentially gets around the unconstitutionality issue by pressuring congress to give up their constitutional mandate by handing it over, no questions asked, to the executive.
Corrente
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She's a kind of lodestone that draws out the male animal.
Times, Sunday Times
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Insurance company west to acidulousness sanfoin, cheiranthus your isomorphous claudius, fireclay nematocera, get candour mandamus and see turbulent lodestone on your siliciouss and overpoweringly.
Rational Review
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I eat so much, suck with lodestone, why is one also sucked?
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Little recognized in this country is that the scope and pervasiveness of American power is now the lodestone for every other country in the pursuit of its own interests.
