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How to use beacons in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word beacons? Here are some examples.

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Sporting and cultural events are beacons for promotional giveaways by newspapers.
The intense feeling welled up within her and shone from her eyes like dark beacons.
It's probably among the last beacons of hope here, in that you can see a protest every couple of miles.
Other applications have included beacons for emergency services vehicles and marine navigation lights.
At night, these monitors become light beacons with the internal sculptured ceilings ghosting behind translucent glass.
Long ago masters of ships found it comforting to find such beacons of light in the darkness.
The AAR operator is responsible for control of the aircraft's rendezvous beacons and tanker illumination lights during air-to-air refuelling.
Because most revenues came from import duties, he had to fashion a customs service and build buoys, beacons, and lighthouses.
They carried with them into the wilderness the light of civilization and lit victory beacons visible for miles around.
There were no signals received from locator beacons attached to the helicopter and its crew, suggesting it disintegrated almost immediately.
From the late 1970s, constellations of man-made navigation satellites have taken over as beacons to guide the way.
Aerial bombs or radio beacons are suspended from external bomb racks on detachable pylons.
As the aircraft slowed, ten members from the elite Golani Infantry jumped out and set up landing beacons for the remaining aircraft.
Similar technology is used to track down lost aircraft and yachts through their radio beacons.
Light, when introduced in the form of navigation beacons on ships, crawled, the speed of light being several thousand times slower.
On British road sign poles, apart from Belisha beacons, we lost our white stripes many years ago and they are now plain black.
This morning we flew over Lake George as the sun rose, illuminating the dams one after the other like beacons.
Such beacons have an historical pedigree and were once lit to warn of imminent danger.
Morgan and Basil were both under the light, their fair hair standing out like beacons in a fog.
The towers look like beacons in the stormy night, still strangely reassuring in their solidity and familiarity.
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Examples from Classical Literature
And he had picked up the line of beacons that marks the airway from Newark to Boston.
The helm is then turned, keeping these lights in range astern until Chapel Hill and Conover beacons are in range on the port bow.
The beacons were found to be part of a horizontal, stratified series of sandstones underlying the igneous rock.
We have experience, we have beacons, we have landmarks enough.
Now the Corporation, with its jurisdiction and beacons, is purely modern.
Chan published one of the two simultaneous reports that showed how semiconductor quantum dots could tag cells with microscopic beacons of light.
Morshead is bearable in Clytemnestra's description the beacons.
The lights that glimmered palely across the harbor were the delusive beacons on some coast of fairyland.
The beacons solved that problem and opened the entire universe.
For this reason, most beacons are built on uninhabited planets.
As soon as they passed the beacons, they began to ply to windward.
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