How to Use lodestar in a Sentence

lodestar

noun
  • The idea of public service has been a lodestar for her throughout her life.
  • In the past 15 years, though, these lodestars have come to mean less and less.
    — Jeffrey Selingo, The Atlantic, 25 May 2018
  • That statement felt both like a challenge and like a lodestar for my work.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2018
  • This rule serves as a lodestar for Chinese and Russian leaders.
    — Brett L. Carter, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Now that Britain is sailing alone, Boris Johnson needs a lodestar.
    — The Economist, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Lowell was established in Mann’s era and remains a lodestar for his cause.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Maybe his personal lodestars will reveal hidden traces of the sublime.
    — Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 15 May 2016
  • That was where her parents were born, and for her, the idea of a Palestinian home had become a lodestar.
    — Rozina Ali, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • His work is the lodestar in a constellation of difference, in both image and form.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Bach was a lodestar, and would ever hover in the background of Penderecki’s life.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Mamdani's City Hall would become a lodestar for the global Left.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The country, with its fashion-savvy consumers, has become a lodestar for the industry.
    — Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Lear was the lodestar for the television industry in a way almost nobody else has ever been.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2023
  • High jewelry and archival creations have become the lodestar for jewelry brands.
    — Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 24 Apr. 2025
  • India's sunshine state has long been a lodestar for the global counterculture.
    — Smitha Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2022
  • David Lynch, whose death was announced Thursday, was my motion picture lodestar.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
  • For them, the world is their university and curiosity their lodestar.
    — Robert Tucker, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • For now, my lodestar is net zero by 2050, which Biden has laid out as a national goal.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2021
  • The West, a lodestar in the nation’s story, holds an enduring allure for modern land barons.
    — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Pop The rapper turned pop star Lizzo felt like a lodestar of the twenty-tens Zeitgeist.
    — Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Nonetheless, the firm is focused on the long term and sees the developers who build up crypto platforms as its lodestar.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 4 May 2018
  • If Netflix was the lodestar for the first round of the streaming wars, YouTube appears to be the target for round two.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024
  • That has been the lodestar of monetary policy in the United States for the past 40 years.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2018
  • The American flag, the lodestar of the Republican look since Nixon, took over.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024
  • The sort of go-for-baroque moviemaking that once characterized the European nation as a lodestar of auteurism?
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2024
  • For gun owners who traveled from around the country for the convention, the NRA remains a lodestar.
    — Lindsay Whitehurst, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2022
  • For years, the no-budget film with improvised dialogue was a lodestar for aspiring filmmakers with indie dreams.
    — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The House should be using the Constitution—not the Star Chamber—as its lodestar.
    — Kyle Whitmire, al, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The event, which is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year, is a lodestar of the region’s burgeoning arts scene.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The great dam at Aswan, which promised electrification and irrigation control, was to be lodestar of the new Egypt.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 21 Feb. 2025

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