alight

Example Sentences

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It's not clear why 120 years later the material set alight.

From BBC

Appalled by the incomprehensible waste—Hiroshima was still weeks away—he searched for precedent in myth and antiquity, alighting at once on the North African city of Carthage.

From The Wall Street Journal

It flared up as the sticks caught alight, and shadows danced on her face as she turned back to them.

From Literature

Glory was grinning, her eyes alight with the same kind of mischief he had seen in the Moon Witch.

From Literature

Police said a track switch was set alight near Pesaro, on the Adriatic coast.

From BBC