alight

Example Sentences

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The face the London tube driver's gaze alighted on looked uncannily like his own.

From BBC

As part of the investigation into what happened at The Station nightclub, experts from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology built a laboratory version of the club and set it alight.

From BBC

She had headed off to the right when we alighted from the train depot, while I had turned to the left.

From Literature

Photos from the site of the crash showed rescue workers helping passengers alight the train, which had fallen off the rail tracks and partly tilted over the side of a cliff.

From BBC

It was set alight in the early hours of Thursday morning in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda East, Victoria police said in a statement, describing it as a "suspicious fire".

From Barron's