Example sentences for: lighthouses

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

  • Built in 1844, it is one of the world’s few remaining lighthouses to be constructed of iron.

  • Gulls hover over lobster pots or perch on rocky outcrops; channel markers float on the surface and small lighthouses appear on the horizon.

  • It is one of only three manual lighthouses in the Bahamas and has to be turned throughout the day and night by a team of dedicated lighthouse workers.

  • Scores of lighthouses along Nova Scotia’s south shore trace a sawtoothed route of coves that over the ages offered shelter to pirates, rum-runners, and fishermen.

  • The spread of lighthouses and decent navigational charts had crippled the old standby, the wrecking trade.


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