Sentence examples for as a lighthouse from inspiring English sources

In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt, once a member of the New York committee, ordered the statue's transfer to the War Department, as it had proved useless as a lighthouse.

Fort Orange, rebuilt by the Dutch and bought by the British in 1872, survives as a lighthouse.

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Disguised as a lighthouse, it had served as a lookout for enemy ships during World War II.

Michael Fassbender plays Tom, an ex-soldier who finds refuge, after the First World War, as a lighthouse keeper.

As "The Light Between Oceans" begins, he is interviewed for and accepts a job as a lighthouse keeper.

He fondly remembered a happy month during an Easter break working as a lighthouse-keeper.

Read a full review 34 Swoonsome melodramatic weepie with Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander as a lighthouse-keeping couple who decide to keep a baby they find drifting in an open boat in post-first world war Australia.

Read a full review 36 Swoonsome, melodramatic weepie starring Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander as a lighthouse-keeping couple who keep a baby they find drifting in an open boat in post-first-world-war Australia.

Father Hesburgh has long spoken of this institution as both a lighthouse and a crossroads.

He stood as both a lighthouse and a crossroads unafraid to speak his mind on moral issues ranging from poverty, AIDS and abortion to the death penalty and nuclear war.