Sentences with 'lighthouse'
Example sentences and phrases with the word lighthouse and other words derived from it.
• « The tower built in 285 BC on the island of Pharos, off Alexandria, was the first lighthouse in living memory and gave its name to later constructions. It is estimated to have been about 130 metres high and a permanently lit fire was kept burning on its summit. »
• « The decisive breakthrough in lighthouse construction was due to the invention of an Englishman, John Smeaton, who in 1759 developed a cement that could set in water. Bonfires were the source of light until the 18th century. »
• « However, the silhouette of the lighthouse remained the same, unmistakable and as closely associated with the sea as a seagull. »
• « Bow to Earth, our holiday in the solar system has come to an end. That luminous globe that you can distinguish closer and closer, that shines with a warm and touching blue in the middle of the deep space night; that one that stands out like a lighthouse in the storm; that one is our home. »