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Witnesses said the fire may have been started by a power line that fell and set scrubland alight but there was no official confirmation.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

A spokesperson for the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service confirmed the bonfire had been set alight on Thursday evening.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

A peroxide Bradford blond with round glasses and cheese-cutter hat, he set the art world alight in the 1960s, and packed out art galleries more than half a century later.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

The force said: "A container was allegedly set alight deliberately causing extensive damage to the container and its contents."

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

Her eyes were alight as she grabbed his shoulders with both hands and shook him.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

When Evelyn finally tells Gong Gong who Becky really is, his face alights with wonder, repeating the Chinese word for girlfriend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2023

A yellow-shafted flicker chisels for an insect in a tree, and a kingfisher alights on an aspen bough.

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

The face the London tube driver's gaze alighted on looked uncannily like his own.

From BBC ● Jan. 18, 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

But the American composer has an instinct for recognizing when he has alighted on a story that will send his imagination into overdrive.

From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024

Even after the two owls alighted, even after he watched them disappear like feathered ghosts into the ground, Officer Delinko continued moving away, backing up step by step until...

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

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

Visitors never forgot the roar of the big birds alighting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 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

Sefia shouldered her pack and climbed down from her tree, alighting at the base of the trunk like a shadow.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee