alight

On a summer night alongside the Colorado River, a line of telegraph poles is set alight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Once a recipe is chosen, clientele relax; zoning out in nearby chairs as glass tubes alight and the machine purrs from within.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

The blonde executive assistant to the president was then mentioned by a Democratic senate hopeful, in comments that set the internet alight -- and incensed the White House.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service watch manager Dave Jackson sets two shirts alight.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

Amaroq watched a large cloud of Lapland longspurs wheel up into the sky, then alight in the grasses.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

Lindsay Hale’s husband, Kai, has been dead for only 12 weeks when she alights in a cold winter landscape that she no longer recognizes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

McCartney’s musical time machine eventually alights on “Salesman Saint,” a reference to his father, Jim Mac, who died in 1976.

From Salon ● May 12, 2026

When the setting sun in the west alights the skyscraper windows in the city with a glow, we call out to each other when we’re home: “It’s glow time!”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2023

He never alights on an answer, but the search has prompted some of his best music to date.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2023

The female alights on the top of a dead tree, panting from fatigue and fear.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

While I was visiting Cindy a few days later, a young cardinal alighted at the feeder and met our gaze.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Not surprisingly, by the time that the couple alighted at the Astrodome in 1974, they were headed for divorce proceedings.

From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2024

The Royal Samoan Police Band began playing as the couple alighted and met local officials.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2024

Finally, one perched on a nearby tree while the other alighted on the deck.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

A dignified gentleman in a three-piece suit alighted.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

Earlier this year, China’s social media was alit with videos of jobless university graduates visiting temples to seek the blessings of the gods.

From Reuters ● Sep. 30, 2023

Just as the animal was nearly out of sight, it flew back upriver, alit on the water, and floated back down—over and over again.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 15, 2023

More than 75,000 spectators attended the Matildas’ quarterfinal victory and the Sydney Opera House was alit in the yellow and green team colors.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2023

But of all the miracle works performed by the McDonald Corporation, you have alit upon two of the finest.

From Fox News ● Sep. 3, 2020

A hawk alit upon the hayloft railing and was unseated unceremoniously when a raven landed nearly on top of it.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

A premise that had sounded a bit ridiculous—a trout mistaking my cast for an alighting insect—had been proven real.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Transport officials urged fans to travel by tram to St Peter's Square and Victoria but to avoid alighting at Deansgate.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2023

Instead of arriving overland, the symbolic flame alighting the 2024 Paris Games will take to the seas from its birthplace in Greece, arriving aboard a three-masted tall ship in the French port of Marseille.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2023

Leonardo’s mind, obsessed with the engineering of flying, was always in flight, alighting on higher and higher branches of knowledge and forever challenging the limits of how far he could soar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2023

The roof of the main building was alive with the alighting and departure of helicopters.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley