Sentence examples for lighthouse sweeps from inspiring English sources

The spinning neutron star also shines out a beam of radio waves that sweeps the sky just as the light beam from a lighthouse sweeps the sea.

Then the lighthouse beacon sweeps out again.

We'd sit by blazing fires as the beams of lighthouses swept across us and the astonishing stars glittered above.

The worst damage from the hurricane most likely occurred in Biloxi, where the coastline itself was altered by up to 20-30 feet and the lighthouse was swept out to sea.

Horton Point Lighthouse, Lighthouse Road.

Here Ruth Brown's painterly and vigorous illustrations tell a parallel story of how an adventurous lighthouse kitten gets swept out into the same sea before being rescued and brought back to safety alongside the sailors.

Lighthouse Point Park, Lighthouse Road.

The windows of this lighthouse have repeatedly been broken by stones swept from the cliff and tossed aloft by waves.

Just as a lighthouse appears to flash on and off as its beam sweeps past an observer, pulsars emit periodic bursts of radiation from which their rate of rotation can be determined.So far, this is all standard stuff.

If those poles are not aligned with the star's axis of rotation, the beam sweeps around with the spinning star like a lighthouse beam.

That speed, together with their extremely strong magnetic fields, causes neutron stars to accelerate charged particles, which emit radio waves in a narrow beam that sweeps across space like the rotating beam of a lighthouse.