Sentence examples for beacon across from inspiring English sources

The sky is wide and silent, the taxiways could pass for country roads, and a white air traffic beacon across Route 25 resembles a clapboard church with an unusually thick steeple.

When his rowing club was assimilated into the Hitler Youth he became a member, but he objected to Nazi views on art and was expelled for writing on the rowing club wall a phrase about freedom "shining like a beacon across the world".

The Eiffel Tower aglitter over the Tuileries beamed like a welcoming beacon across the streets of Paris.

I'm not sure when beacons across the country will next be lit.

For Bruno Peek, the Queen's pageant master, the operation to light beacons across the UK and throughout the Commonwealth, leading to the last beacon being lit by the Queen herself last night, was the highlight of the celebrations.

The jubilee will be marked by nationwide celebrations in June, including a four-day public holiday, a Thames river pageant, massed parades and the lighting of beacons across the country.

Mitchell was in Edinburgh, and there were many other beacons across the country: the stupendous woodcuts of Utamaro at Birmingham's Ikon gallery; in Bristol, Arnolfini's Kerry Tribe show with its elegiac portraits of amnesia; underwater art at the Towner in Eastbourne; volcanos at Compton Verney, Warwickshire.

1. Despite what must at best be a bittersweet situation for the queen, because of the recent deaths of her sister and her mum, the royal jubilee will reach its peak between June 1 and June 4, with everything from pop concerts on the grounds of Buckingham Palace to the lighting of 455 beacons across England in her honor.

"We've given consent to beacons across Gloucestershire.

And on Friday the Queen led a ceremony to light beacons across the UK.

The Queen then lit the final one of 4,500 beacons across the world marking her 60-year reign.