Sentence examples for beacon that from inspiring English sources

I have a homing beacon that comes on at 2am.

It's a long way off, he said, but it's the beacon that keeps him and his colleagues working.

It was a beacon that down the ages has been patiently signalling the fact that no one had discovered it.

The main tower is capped by a copper beacon that is decorated by a circle of sea horses.

A State Department official told the Free Beacon that "as far as we know there are not yet any announced candidates for the 2016 Human Rights Council presidency".

The prospect of joining the European bloc became the beacon that drove many of the former Soviet states to adopt the institutions of democratic capitalism.

"We know it could be a blow to his morale to miss the World Cup, the beacon that has guided him since his accident," Lacombe said.

Matsuyama let his smile be the beacon that guided him around the course, cutting through the gray sky and sometimes heavy rain.

Facebook is still recovering from a fiasco last year when it launched a service called Beacon that broadcast its users' purchases on independent websites to their Facebook friends.

In 2007 Facebook launched a short-lived service called Beacon that let members' friends see what products they had purchased from participating companies.

I understand, too, the desire for a New York City beacon that can be seen from the air or an approaching highway.