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Example sentences for: beacon

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Flamborough Head (Humberside) is not so named from the flames of a beacon here.
Farther along Beacon at number 45, Harrison Gray Otis died in the house that Bulfinch designed for him.
All the papers except the New York Times lead with the recovery of a large piece of wreckage from EgyptAir flight 990 and the discovery of an electronic beacon possibly emitted by its cockpit voice or data recorder (this story also tops the Wall Street Journal 's "Worldwide" box).
Did Miramax and director Wes Craven have to work so hard to schlockify the story of Roberta Guaspari (played here by Meryl Streep), whose violin courses in East Harlem elementary schools have become a beacon for such programs nationwide?
It feels somewhat like a toy village — a miniature, flat version of Beacon Hill — with similar red-brick and black-shuttered homes lining sidewalks that are shaded by trees and lit by old-fashioned street lamps.