How to Use beacon in a Sentence

beacon

noun
  • Our nation should be a beacon of peace to people around the world.
  • These countries are beacons of democracy.
  • And now that beacon has gone out.
    Emma Marsden, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The light is still active, a beacon for boaters at night.
    Bri Buckley, CBS News, 8 June 2026
  • The girl did not have a beacon, the spokesperson said.
    Lindsay Good, NBC news, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The hope is that the star will remain a beacon of light for decades to come.
    Olivia Young, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025
  • The branding worked like a beacon.
    Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Johnson’s a deacon at his church and a beacon of truth.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Tori was a champion… a beacon of light that shined so bright!
    Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 13 June 2023
  • Her sister was her best friend and her mom was her shining beacon of light.
    Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • His strength, love and constant support is my beacon in the night.
    USA Today, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Skiers should wear their beacon on their person and keep it in send/transmit mode.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Rise above the city in an Art Deco beacon.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Owning a beacon, probe, and shovel isn’t enough.
    Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The front entry should serve as a welcoming beacon to greet guests.
    Sydney Price, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Joe, as always thanks for being a beacon of light in today’s world!
    Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The brands are, after all, two of the best beacons of the returning trend.
    Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Minarets like this one serve as the beacons from which Muslims are called to prayer five times each day.
    Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2023
  • Why probate scams work Grief is a beacon for fraudsters.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • This will turn out to be one of those, a blazoned day, one of the few that shine out from any life like beacon fires.
    Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Guides assigned us to a numbered airbag backpack and avalanche beacon.
    Brent Rose, Outside, 28 Feb. 2026
  • But in recent years, the City of Light has reemerged as a beacon for the new.
    Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Without the trees, Smith said, the street is a beacon for scorching heat.
    Charlotte Observer, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The other skier began a search with an avalanche beacon, but could not find a signal.
    BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • But that beacon’s light dimmed when her award went missing at the end of the 1960s.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The skiers all had beacons that can send signals to rescuers, and at least one guide was able to send text messages.
    ABC News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The model stood as a beacon through the show as everything else moved around the giant puffer coat.
    Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024
  • On the way home, a few miles outside of Crisfield, a sign appeared like a beacon.
    Colleen Oakley, Good Housekeeping, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Assadi's new hope—Iran could become a beacon of peace for the world.
    Adam Duxter, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Where some see hands rising in unison, others picture a beacon aglow.
    Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 4 June 2026

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