alight

Example Sentences

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Half of the one-storey building is alight, LFB said, and Adelaide Road is closed between Winchester Road and Haverstock Hill.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026

They alight in a waterlogged Liverpool and discover the broken social factions that have cropped up in the wake of environmental collapse.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026

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 • Dec. 25, 2025

His memories alight on his father, Wheeler, an attorney who turned down a high-paying job in Chicago to hang out his shingle in Port William.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

I like Gail, who is “looking at fifty,” agewise, but moves so fast she can alight in one place and then another without apparently being anywhere between.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich