Examples of lodestone in a Sentence

the young woman's wealth unfortunately made her a lodestone for fortune hunters

Recent Examples on the Web The lodestone recruit credited with building Alabama’s football dynasty under Nick Saban, Jones is a first ballot Hall of Famer but deserves to be treated as something more. — Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 21 May 2021 Both, however, enjoyed blockbuster solo success, releasing seminal GOAT albums (King's singer-songwriter lodestone Tapestry; Turner's resilient comeback classic Private Dancer) and see their impact continue to grow with each passing decade. — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 10 Feb. 2021 Early iron compass needles were magnetized by lodestone, or magnetized magnetite minerals, pulled from the Earth. — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Dec. 2019 Objects like lodestones, which had exotic properties, would have been particularly valued in trade. — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 6 Aug. 2019 Appropriately, The Times is a lodestone; Gesine reveres it as a voice of reason and propriety sifting the world into sensible sentences. — New York Times, 19 July 2019 John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley is cited as a literary lodestone in Our Towns, along with William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways. — Barry Singer, USA TODAY, 8 May 2018 Equally keen not to be eclipsed, Hublot is at the precipice of unveiling a Big Bang crafted of the same lodestone owned and used by 6BC philosopher Thales of Miletus and which has been magnetized by the forcefield surrounding Zeus’s lightning bolts. — Wei Koh, A-LIST, 3 Apr. 2018 His unpopularity at home was a lodestone in his presidential campaign, not a victim of that presidential campaign’s failure. — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 10 Jan. 2018

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