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
  • 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 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
  • The website of Juventud Rebelde simply showed the Cuban flag as a guidepost, with all roads leading to socialism.
    Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Past incarnations can be a useful guidepost, but eventually, every Avatar needs to find their own voice, too.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2024

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