How to Use polestar in a Sentence

polestar

noun
  • Climate change has been, and remains, the polestar of Putin’s decade-long turn away from the West.
    Stephen Lezak, The New Republic, 2022-07-12
  • Copenhagen today is a city transformed, a polestar across creative fields from art to architecture, design to dining.
    New York Times, 2018-04-26
  • Time is told by the rising up and rolling down of the sunlight on the cliffs, by the glimpse of Cassiopeia in the narrows turning around the polestar through the stardust of perfect clear September nights.
    Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 2019-06-24
  • The Crying of Lot 49 as polestars—but that doesn’t really capture the affecting humanity of the five episodes that have aired (episode six airs on September 10).
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 2018-09-07

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