How to Use the North Star in a Sentence

the North Star

noun

• In fact, Prime is the North Star in many of these talks … for both parties.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024
• Those were two of the classics that, as a kid, were kind of the North Star of theater.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
• The largest star at the top represents the North Star and Minnesota.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
• My faith has been as constant as the North Star every step of my journey.
  — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 31 Mar. 2024
• Now, that’s not always possible, but that’s the North Star.
  — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 22 June 2023
• Because the individual goals are clear and both point to the North Star goal, the sales and marketing teams can work in tandem.
  — Nitin Gupta, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• The agency says during the event, the star system will be similar in brightness to the North Star, Polaris, and may shine this bright for days or a week after first appearing.
  — Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 31 July 2024
• That piece, equal parts painting and sculpture, consists of a patched shipping tarp overlaid with steel railroad tracks, with a dot of neon light near the top representing the North Star.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• Others predict its radiance will be more in line with 2020’s comet Neowise, which was also visible to the naked eye and had a glow similar to the North Star.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 8 Oct. 2024
• Sentiment is the North Star of this page-to-stage adaptation, and those searching for an excuse to shed tears — who couldn’t use one, nowadays? — will find the musical delivers.
  — Naveen Kumar, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
• The star system, located 3,000 light-years from Earth and typically too dim to be seen with the naked eye, is expected to reach a level of brightness similar to that of Polaris, or the North Star.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 Mar. 2024
• While 10 years ago making a traditional New York–style bagel was the North Star, national bagel culture is moving in new directions.
  — Elazar Sontag, Bon Appétit, 27 June 2023
• The background of sunflowers symbolizes the constancy of the North Star as Tubman’s unwavering faith.
  — Jacoba Urist, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
• These ideas remain the North Star to our constitutional democracy.
  — Dj Rosenthal, Baltimore Sun, 15 July 2024
• Elusive stars began to emerge, dappling the stretches of sky that often look empty between streaks of red and green aircraft lights and astronomical divas like the North Star or Big Dipper.
  — Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• With a low rate of preventable deaths and relatively few residents without health insurance, the North Star State is America’s fifth-healthiest.
  — Scott Cohn, CNBC, 13 July 2024
• In times of uncertainty, your narrative becomes the North Star for your organization.
  — Katie Britton, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
• But the ideal – the assumption that America had a special role in the world and a responsibility toward its allies and the world – was the North Star for American politicians who came of age politically in the postwar years.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2024
• Although a political transition should remain the North Star for any credible Venezuela policy, the Venezuelan regime has proved more resilient than its political opposition and many outside observers had anticipated.
  — Christopher Sabatini, Foreign Affairs, 9 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024