Example sentences for: beacon

How can you use “beacon” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The beacon atop the tower gives it a claim of being the tallest lighthouse in the world; it also has an interesting oceanographic museum.

  • At the northern end of Beacon Hill is the Crystal Gardens conservatory.

  • Lighthouse Pin a beloved coastal beacon made by James Breakell in sterling silver $30.

  • Simatai consists of 14 beacon towers, each about 400 m (a quarter mile) apart, which were once used to transmit fire and smoke signals — tower by tower — to the Chinese armies encamped below should an enemy be sighted.

  • And we are told that it “probably reaches us from Danish baun, a beacon.”


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