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
• But doing the right thing in the end is not a bad lodestar.
  — Bruce Peterson, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020
• But maybe the issue should not be the party’s lodestar.
  — Eduardo Porter, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2017
• That statement felt both like a challenge and like a lodestar for my work.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2018
• So what’s the P/E-like ratio that for gold, in the long run, is the lodestar that always guides gold back home?
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Now that Britain is sailing alone, Boris Johnson needs a lodestar.
  — The Economist, 30 Jan. 2020
• In recent years, Orban has emerged as a kind of lodestar for the right-wing movement in the United States.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• 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
• The House should be using the Constitution—not the Star Chamber—as its lodestar.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 1 Nov. 2019
• 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
• An important truth, and the lodestar of Harry Jaffa’s life.
  — Mike Potemra, National Review, 4 July 2019
• Bach was a lodestar, and would ever hover in the background of Penderecki’s life.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Aug. 2020
• For gun owners who traveled from around the country for the convention, the NRA remains a lodestar.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst, Hartford Courant, 28 May 2022
• Lowell was established in Mann’s era and remains a lodestar for his cause.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
• His work is the lodestar in a constellation of difference, in both image and form.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 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
• The lodestar of statutory construction is the text itself.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 10 Mar. 2022
• Lloyd makes Chastain the lodestar in this constellation.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
• This point alone should be a lodestar of the hearings: Elections matter for the court, even if most of what the court does is obfuscated and footnoted.
  — Neil S. Siegel, Slate Magazine, 1 Feb. 2017
• 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
• Throughout the pandemic, one lodestar of public-health advice has come down to three words: Do things outside.
  — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2020
• Maybe his personal lodestars will reveal hidden traces of the sublime.
  — Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 15 May 2016
• 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
• Redesigned for 2022 and just off a recent comparison-test win, the Civic is a lodestar for small-car excellence.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 27 May 2022
• 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
• Monsegur was determined to remain a lodestar in their lives.
  — Aki Ito, Bloomberg.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• India's sunshine state has long been a lodestar for the global counterculture.
  — Smitha Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024