Sentence examples for function as signposts from inspiring English sources

If a member of either group felt homesick, the local CVS or a more distant Wal-Mart would be there to function as signposts that you really can hardly leave home any more for wilder shores or hills.

Physical borders no longer can function as signposts informing individuals of the obligations assumed by entering into a new, legally significant, place, because individuals are unaware of the existence of those borders as they move through virtual space.

In his research on the church, and on the Railroad, Biggers read about the legend — spurious, as it happens — of quilts that functioned as signposts for slaves, carrying coded messages from one fugitive to the next: "Keep moving," "Turn back," "These people are safe".

Territorial and subordinate males alike make dung piles along pathways leading inland, which probably function as olfactory signposts at night.

A pre-turkey tipple ideally performs a secondary function as an aesthetic, sensory signpost, instilling all the flavors associated with fall and harvest into a single cup.

I always use the ravens i see in my life as signposts.

First, they can be used as signposts.

Perhaps the strange names work as signposts, not barriers.

Fiacconi, D. & Rossi, E. M. Bright vigorous winds as signposts of supermassive black hole birth.

By no coincidence, these have also served as signposts to Ms. Kristeva's own life.

(He would, though, always inject pieces of the melody as signposts for the listener).