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Sentence Examples Later in the morning the air sea rescue helicopter arrived at the scene, responding to the mussel dredger's satellite emergency beacon. Less than 30 seconds later, Maready was treading water as she watched the red beacon light of her tail rudder spiral deeper into the dark abyss. She has woven a complex narrative of hope and danger in the city that was destined to be the beacon of the New South. The ship's radios would be on, but the running lights and the tower beacon would be secured. It turned out that the chopper was homing in on the emergency locator beacon that activated when the raft was inflated. The Inn was all aglow with lights twinkling from its many stories, a beacon on the hill above Freeport. There are lead-in lights from the river approach, landing floodlights, a marker beacon and a lighted windsock. Orange will again become the word no other word rhymes with rather than the penultimate beacon of national anxiety. Its luminous, yet soothing lights shined in the dark murky skies like a beacon of heaven. He heard a beep, signal that the beacon had found magnetic north up to the set precision. The plans were a mainstay of the amalgamation process and the beacon to guide sustainable development. And yet this sad figure is held up as a beacon of commiserative hope for women? As a group of self-governing, state-funded schools, that took bright pupils from state primary schools, they were once a beacon of excellence. That said, Jerome Vareille stood out like a beacon of hope, creating or being on the end of the best of the few chances. When I saw the sign of The Dolmen Hotel all lit up it was like a beacon of hope to me. The light flared like a beacon in the universe, bright enough for all to see. As one of the oldest pubs in town, Hargadon's bar on O'Connell Street acts like a beacon to tourists and locals alike. This school is a leader in all-round education in the country and stands out like a beacon. It gave her a warm feeling to come home at night and see the light, like a beacon, burning brightly, beckoning her to the warmth of family. A beacon of hope for younger generation lawyers, he regularly goes to court, attends to cases and is still a leading lawyer. Show More Sentences But amid the feelings of frustration, one piece of positive news shone out like a beacon of hope. Slowly, she was making her way to the door, where she could see the sunlight lighting like a beacon for her. Well-dressing festivals light up the Derbyshire dales all summer long, blazing from village to village like a beacon chain. The Lighthouse was spinning its beacon again, as though it had never been as lifeless as it was just yesterday morning. The low power drain receiver is always on and will sound an alarm whenever it receives the unique signal from the MOB beacon. Jon thinks he is the loneliest boy in the world, with nothing to do but watch the lighthouse beacon. The rain beat down on the lighthouse, the beacon of which barely managed to pierce the fog. If a late afternoon or night arrival is likely, select an alternate with a rotating beacon and runway lights. When night falls, the lighthouse and its embracing beacon draw the eye, flashing every five seconds as its loom bounces over the waves. If the company is leasing bandwidth from a cell company, they could conceivably use a low powered microwave transmitter for the tracking beacon. If an aircraft's beacon is turned off, the Air Force can now use search radars to still keep tabs on it. The emergency services were informed of the disaster by the ship's emergency radio beacon. After setting a directional beacon to warn passing ships, the Scout looked around the ship, hoping to try and pick up a clue as to what happened. When activated, the beacon sends an encoded distress message to a series of satellites orbiting the Earth. An orbiting satellite picked up a distress signal from the ship's emergency beacon, standard equipment on all modern boats. But what they're going to do is put a Belisha beacon crossing here and then put more streetlights on top of the Belisha beacon. So I'm going to harness the mighty power of Google and put the beacon out there. They delivered 50 to 100 milliwatts of power and provided secondary electricity for a beacon signal generator. At twilight, the family lights candles, to shine a beacon to the souls as they return. The firewood, soaked in oil, blazed up immediately, and his boat became a beacon of flame, drifting downstream towards Lake Tallian. Show More Sentences On a street pocked with dark storefronts, and in a neighborhood with its share of urban blight, the Beachland's neon sign is a beacon. The mare snorted again and then took off into the trees, a beacon of pearly white in the gray. When I came upon the deli, its sign glowing like a beacon in the brumous night, a slight twinge of anticipation quickened my pace. The airstrip, which does not have a manned control tower, is served by a non-directional beacon. We also needed to confirm the airport would be open, and the airport lights and non-directional beacon were working. As I continued east at more than 600 knots, the ELT beacon became strong enough to break through the squelch setting of my radio. After the fifth capsize, I climbed out on deck, fully intended to set off my distress beacon to ask for help. They ran into stormy seas and started their emergency distress beacon late on Friday night. Tiger Lily finally got back to the site after dark but Capon used the safety beacon in his camera strobe to catch its attention. During the bats' nocturnal searches for nectar, this feature provides an acoustic beacon to home in on. A Hercules aircraft honed in on the boat's locator beacon and an oil tanker eventually launched a lifeboat to rescue the man. The US views itself as a beacon on the hill, a paragon for other nations to emulate. No way was Clara getting to that beacon, I don't care if she danced the hula all the way! But, despite traversing steep alpine regions, he did not pack crampons, an ice axe or an emergency distress beacon. To attract them to your home, plant red flowers that bloom early, such as red penstemon to serve as a beacon of refuge. Only Liberty's arm with the beacon was finished in time to be exhibited at the world fair in Philadelphia in 1876, the centenary of independence. The boat also managed to use its emergency position indicator radio beacon. A beacon of light pierced the dark and the rain, coming from above the treetops. Our commanding officer coordinated a flyover of the ship for us so the LSOs could shine a beacon on our nose gear and determine its condition. I waited there like a fogbound ship looking for the flash of a lighthouse, some sense of direction, a beacon to steer by. Show More Sentences Above all, the idea was to create a beacon to further development in a formerly dilapidated area. The instrument package would remain on the last-stage rocket, which could serve as a counterpoise for the furlable antenna of the beacon. From the Replacements to the Hang Ups, Minneapolis has long been a beacon for tuneful, crunchy power pop. Among the violence, there are also moments of empathy and humanity, which shine out like a beacon. Long into the night this chicken burned, spitting sparks and smoke, a beacon for pyromaniacs and madmen everywhere. Below them, outside the windows was the soft glow of her anchor light beacon and across the room the candle guttered and went out. Lex Stewart sounds like a beacon of moderation compared to some. A Hercules aircraft homed in on the boat's locator beacon and a merchant oil tanker eventually launched a lifeboat and was rowing the man to safety, said Jessup. A simple method has been introduced for analyzing VHF omnirange radio beacon errors caused by deficiencies in and misalignment of its antenna system. And my beloved Zimbabwe has sunk from a promising beacon into an abyss of greed and dictatorship. But simultaneously, as indicated by his support for beacon, journalism is still incredibly valuable to him. I also think Christine Baranski is a beacon of light and I, too, would like to know what Josh Charles was thinking. Our beloved Lady Liberty has been a beacon of hope for millions of people seeking a better life. But thanks to Josh Fox, who says beacon International also reached out to Susan Sarandon and Who Killed the Electric Car? Even at 89, after battling a near-fatal bout with bronchitis late last year, Bush continues to be beacon of decency. As they approached the coast the lookouts strained to see the beacon at Black Rock Lighthouse on the horizon, as navigation was left largely to chance in the darkness. And immediately ahead were the runway lights and beacon of Langley Field. A radio beacon as installed in 1927 and five years later the diaphone and radio beacon were synchronized to help guide them safely into the harbor. He had turned up all the field lights to maximum and turned on the beacon. Newcastle's helicopter saw a strobe light and beacon overnight and early Friday morning located the yacht's life raft and crew near Duff Reef off of the Fijian Islands. Show More Sentences A distress beacon flashes over the snow-covered surroundings. Our state will be a shining beacon of liberal freedom, where anyone and everyone will have the right to live any way they want, and believe whatever they want. Szentkuthy stood as a beacon in this darkness of misery and cruelty. It was, notwithstanding the ultimately tragic fate of the Soviet Union, the historical antipode to capitalist barbarism, and the beacon for future generations. The trail arched gently around a broad bay towards Krios headland, the corner of Crete, and a tiny chapel whose whitewashed walls gleamed like a beacon. Serving as a beacon on the Atlantic City skyline, the tower features a unique light show with as many as 42 different light configurations that can be seen for miles. Fifty miles southwest of the town on a tiny island in the delta, lies the Adziogol Lighthouse, an important beacon for ships navigating the tangle of sandbanks. The second camera run experienced initial difficulties when the second pinger available on the ship turned out not to be an oceanographic pinger but rather a location beacon. In the past, blockhouses were used as defence forts and beacon towers. In the squally pit of criticism, Wood is the brightest beacon and the biggest target. If Ivar was a shining beacon of confidence, his securities would maintain their value, even if the rest of the market crashed. We muster outside the building which is bright enough to be a beacon. The fact that I focused on soaring house prices, vibrant nightlife, and beacon primary schools ensured that I didn't earn one quote or namecheck in the next day's papers. During the course of the day, nature called and a public toilet was duly spotted in the distance, shining like a beacon of light in an otherwise barren sea of heather. In a very few seconds, the very tip of the Pillar began to shine like a beacon, until the light exploded outward in every direction, moving like a shock wave. At least one of the airliners involved transmitted a hijacking beacon. There is usually a Belisha beacon at each side of the crossing. This created a level area that was drilled to take the anchorages for the light beacon that was installed the following year. In rotation, each member of the group would be responsible for the beacon fire. What a comfort that must be when you're bobbing up and down in the ocean, knowing they haven't wasted the space and put a radio beacon there. Show More Sentences It is undeniable that Malcolm was a beacon of huge strength in his lifetime. He could connect with swaths of people when others could not. I intoned into a Belisha beacon or the top of a traffic cone to get the resonance. The personal locator beacon was registered to a pilot in Texas, so a whole chain of events were set in motion. Like a beacon of life, nurses and caseworkers from the Northeast Valley Health Corp. Environmentalists hold up Norm Thompson Outfitters as a shining beacon of what a major cataloger can accomplish. They set off a radio beacon after claiming that Mr Sellers wanted to scuttle the yacht. His survival suit kept him alive and his personal locator beacon helped an RAF rescue helicopter locate him. With Aquino's death, a beacon of democracy has disappeared, Luther Culler, 28, a safety officer, said. The radar of radio beacon installations, the railway station and other vital areas were ablaze. We have been told they had a handheld radio and an emergency position-indicating radio beacon but there has been no signal from either of them. It was the sort of biological equivalent of a Belisha beacon warning of lunchtime chips ahead. Also a torchlit procession in Menstrie prior to the lighting of Jfor the beacon on Dumyat. Standard accessories include a four-person survival bag, personal locator beacon, claw tie-down system and a two-year AVPLAN subscription. Standard accessories include a 4-person survival bag, personal locator beacon, claw tie-down system and a two-year AVPLAN subscription. But the airport has a less advanced system, a VHF Omnidirectional Radio beacon, or VOR, that should have sufficed. Cota receivers built into devices and batteries regularly send out beacon signals omnidirectionally. Our nation should be a beacon of peace to people around the world. There was no doubt as to the direction, with the campanile of the duomo as a beacon. A US Coastguard helicopter found him near dusk by tracking an emergency radio beacon which may have saved his life. A turret at the top of Lanthorn Tower was used as a beacon by traffic approaching the Tower at night. Show More Sentences United Airlines also reported that it had found a pinched wire in one 787 locator beacon. June 2012 saw a beacon being lit on top of St Giles as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. The base of the monument is lit and the top is illuminated to provide a beacon in the night sky across the city. He was found by a US Coastguard helicopter crew that had tracked his emergency radio beacon. Lutter was wearing a personal locator beacon, but the device had not been activated, officials said. Victorian restoration work of the chapel found signs that a beacon may have adorned the roof. At the dissolution of the monasteries two monks were allowed to remain on the island, as they maintained a beacon for shipping in the river mouth. When an end-user opens or even previews an e-mail containing an embedded spam beacon, it sends its signal back to the spammer, validating the address. Not only that, sources said the SHO took his official vehicle and driver to attend the private function, all along flashing the vehicle's red beacon. The SA range, with muting under one part number, is seen as complete because every bracket, all connectors, muting sensors and warning beacon are included. Anyhow, taste as we know it really only matters when there's someone to lord it over, when it functions as a klieg light and a beacon for others to follow. It was alleged by the police that while some 30 students were singing Welsh national songs in New Street, six of them played football with a Belisha beacon. McArdle had been off the park for five minutes getting stitches in his head knock and came back on with a bright red bandage that made him stick out like a Belisha beacon. The stone spiral staircase which once led to the beacon was demolished. My reflection in you warbled, because you see only hints, of what I see to beacon of me. Who am I who is reflecting from you? How so do I identify my soul in you? A foghorn was installed in 1952, replaced in 1993 by an electric beacon. Cars kept stopping because they thought my head was a Belisha beacon. The first time I was in college and they back-combed my hair until my head looked so big and round on top of my skinny body that I resembled a Belisha beacon. The 80-foot tower with its dramatic, fabulous animal water spouts, clocks and spire is a beacon, a landmark and icon for all of us with its architecture. Examples from Classical Literature In a crisis his presence in London or Paris was absolutely necessary to the beacon. Knowing that it came from the fenestra house, she used it as a beacon to guide her. A lamp hung on the forestay as a beacon for the boats and one could see the sweep of planks and line of the rail. No hope remained save that he might be tossed up on the beach somewhere near the friendly fire that was burning as a beacon. For some time Jimmy rode with only the roar of his own engine and the buzzing of the radio beacon reaching his ears. They had reached the top of the beacon hill, and were out upon the Fell, before George had begun his story. On the highest point of the ruin is an iron machine like a kibble, which serves as a beacon. The new church, recently built at the foot of the beacon hill, is in the Gothic perpendicular style of architecture. On beacon hill, the stronghold of the old social order, there was an eager, outreaching intellectual life. We are now on the north side of that beacon hill for which we steered last Sunday. Crouching under the tree, as the sun went down behind beacon hill, Joyce saw the future unfold itself. A powerful automatic beacon on Richardson's Rock, cal., that burns half a year without attention. Besides being a beacon for sledging parties, it was used for ablation measurements. On he flew, following the radio beacon intently, watching his time, calculating his position. Permission was also given to use the gravel of beacon hill for the purpose. The strong steady draft guided them like a radio beacon, leading them to their only faint hope of escape and life. He continued to climb, to watch his instruments, to listen to the radio beacon. But he thought of the invaluable help this radio beacon must be to the mail pilots in the fog. He flew on, listening carefully to the buzz of the radio beacon, and intent upon his task. All the while the radio beacon signal was buzzing loudly in his ears. Show More Sentences And then, like a guiding beacon, a point of green showed once more. A fixed nomenclature is a beacon against repetition and discursiveness. The beacon had reached a large circulation, but its slave was worn out. Ah, then beacon Street is one of the principal streets, is it? The Church had been his beacon before, but now it was to be his refuge. They talk to the war-ships and the castle from beacon hill, too. But they went up, across the beacon hill, as though by mutual consent. You see I'd been born in a twenty-one-foot red-brick house on beacon hill. The anarch is a stronger and more developed beacon of personal power and freedom. She was obliged to pass between the point of the jetty, surmounted by a beacon just lighted, and a rock which jutted out. On top of each listening post will be a red light which will blink like a beacon at night. The thoughts about the beacon were after all not so very absorbing. That fire shall provide no beacon for uric Dugan and the Danites! They stand out like a Belisha beacon when all other plants and shrubs have defoliated around it in winter. Already the marker beacon at Numidia was sounding in his ears. Whether you are a ghost hunter, maritime buff, or picnicker, you'll find this 19th-century beacon and museum near Crescent City worth exploring. Crestron makes smart homes even more intelligent and personalized with the PinPoint proximity detection beacon. It was, in effect, a radio beacon on which enemy missiles could home. Remember to fly high and follow your radio beacon carefully. In the predawn hours one recent morning, Darshana Shah padded into her kitchen and flipped on the light, a lone beacon in her slumbering Tulsa Street neighborhood. Show More Sentences The legacy and thought provoking judicial pronouncements of the Chief Justice are going to prove a beacon light for the judicature for all times to come. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of beacon? Words that rhyme with beacon What is the past tense of beacon? What is the plural of beacon? What is the adjective for beacon? What is the noun for beacon? Translations for beacon Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Beachy beachy beachwear beachside beaching beachheads Beacon beaconed beaconing beacon of hope beacons Beaconsfield 6-letter Words Starting With b be bea beac beaco