How to Use guidepost in a Sentence

guidepost

noun

• The guidepost said that the camp was to the left.
• If boundaries start to blur, the pledge can serve as a guidepost.
  — Xerxes Cooper, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2023
• The area’s 150-year-old Banyan tree, which had been across the street from Down the Hatch, became a guidepost.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 23 Aug. 2023
• There are no guideposts, no divining rods to tell you what to do.
  — Barry Diller, WIRED, 1 Feb. 1995
• The book became a guidepost for the craft cocktail movement that emerged across the country and throughout the world.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• For the moment, at least, Walz seems to have passed the do-no-harm test that has become the guidepost for choosing a running mate.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2024
• But on the 14th, the razor-thin crescent moon will act as a convenient guidepost for tracking down the dim duo.
  — National Geographic, 1 Jan. 2018
• Paving the way for better personal health is now the guidepost for the company’s bold new changes.
  — Susie Gharib, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2017
• One rare guidepost also comes from the post-Watergate era.
  — Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2022
• That makes the bright star a convenient guidepost for hunting down the asteroid.
  — Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 1 Apr. 2019
• Whichever direction you’re headed, here are a few guideposts to keep in mind.
  — Todd Plummer, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2023
• On our winding path to progress, that promise has served as a critical guidepost.
  — Wes Moore, TIME.com, 17 Dec. 2016
• Biden takes pride in his Catholic faith, using it as a moral guidepost to shape his social and economic policies.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2021
• Biden takes pride in his Catholic faith, using it as moral guidepost to shape many of his social and economic policies.
  — Josh Boak, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Oct. 2021
• The most conventional guideposts out there are pretty old and creaky.
  — Chris Taylor, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2017
• But one guidepost comes from its projections of where the unemployment rate will settle in the long run.
  — Josh Mitchell, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022
• What kind of advantage will your brother have having both your dad’s and your career as a guidepost?
  — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2019
• Bustillos has just the right tone as a reassuring guidepost for the teen throughout his chaotic life.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2023
• That could function as a guidepost for the U.S. Patent Office, which will have to rule on the transaction’s validity.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• Many people use dates on packages as guideposts and rely on their senses.
  — Washington Post, 6 June 2019
• The waxing gibbous moon will act as a convenient guidepost.
  — National Geographic, 4 Dec. 2019
• People look to places like Harvard to serve as cultural guideposts.
  — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2024
• Either way, sensitizing yourself to what sparks joy—and what doesn’t—can be a valuable guidepost for you this month.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2024
• Late this evening, the waning gibbous moon will act as a convenient guidepost to help sky-watchers see the ringed wonder, Saturn.
  — National Geographic, 1 May 2017
• The president takes pride in his Catholic faith, using it as moral guidepost to shape many of his social and economic policies.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2021
• The chapter titles are opaque, more like symbolic poetry than guideposts for the book.
  — Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• Earth's twin will act as a convenient guidepost to finding fainter Jupiter just to its lower right on Saturday evening.
  — Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 26 Aug. 2016
• The rate indicates what banks charge each other for overnight lending but sets a guidepost for a slew of other consumer debt products.
  — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 30 July 2024
• The study also serves as a guidepost for hospitals to help frontline workers reduce the effects of such stress now, its authors say.
  — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2021
• The Internet is the vast, unruly sea on which the latter half of this story is tossed, yet Gabriel describes it as one might a series of guideposts viewed from a passing ship deck.
  — Michelle Orange, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024