alight

Both fires in Nantes spread after a bin was set alight.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

The skin under his hand sparks to life, every cell alight with feeling.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2023

Butler alights on Watergate as a disillusioning American moment, during which “the Method could bring audiences closer than ever to the internal conflicts and pains of living in Nixon’s America.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2022

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025

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

Pulling on her powerful wings, Frightful sped to the top of the tallest pine and alighted on a slender twig.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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

When he got to the water trough, Matt alit and filled it from the pump as Tam Lin had always done.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

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

Visitors never forgot the roar of the big birds alighting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2023

Neither are his players, some of whom began their careers at higher-profile destinations before alighting to Pitt in search of opportunity.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2023

It was a crow, full-sized, spiraling over her head and alighting on the nearest tree.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill