Sentence examples for beacon to guide from inspiring English sources
"They told me the Ófeigskirkja had been used as a beacon to guide people through the lava field for centuries, so they asked me to write to the mayor to halt the road".
On occasions where no knowledge of temperature is needed, the FNDs in the nanohybrids are still useful as a photostable beacon to guide researchers to achieve target-specific optical transfection [41] or light-activated therapies [42] with the constituting GNR nanoheaters.
The vessels themselves had search radar and could activate a homing beacon to guide lost aircraft towards the ships' known locations.
Declare who you want to be and what you want your life to resemble and use that declaration as a beacon to guide every decision.
The S class submarine would leave before the rest of the convoy and be in position to act as a navigational beacon to guide the convoy into the Loire estuary.
By 1924, coast-to-coast airmail service had developed, using light beacons to guide open-cockpit planes at night.
Marge and Jim Russell recently stood at the water's edge with their grandchildren and several hundred other people, ready to launch more than 1,000 paper lanterns on the receding tide, beacons to guide home ancestral spirits believed to have returned that night for a Japanese Buddhist ritual known as a bon dance.
On 15 August 1944 the brigade's pathfinders landed in the south of France and set up Eureka beacons to guide the main brigade force to their drop zones.
This list is a beacon to help guide startups through their most common early mistakes.
But the prickly creatures have devised a way to shorten their search: The eggs release a chemical homing beacon to help guide the sperm.
A beacon is a landmark or device that marks a fixed location (e.g. a lighthouse or radio beacon) to directly guide a navigator toward a destination (or near a destination (Waller & Lippa, 2007)), and/or provide them with information about their bearing (i.e. the direction to a given object or location; Priyantha, Chakraborty, & Balakrishnan, 2000).
