alight

Example Sentences

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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

While the creations from independent L.A. brand Lucky Star Candle are technically burnable, I prefer to display them around my house like beautiful wax sculptures whose sole purpose is alighting aesthetic pleasure within me.

From Los Angeles Times

Here countless celebrities and industry titans alighted as they came, or returned, to L.A.

From Los Angeles Times