alight
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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
Firefighters attended multiples fires in Stoke-on-Trent after fences, gardens and garages were alight.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
For many though, for his prediction to come true, Lamine Yamal was going to have to set the tournament alight in his first ever World Cup.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
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
And because he had trained her so well, she could not alight without his whistle.
From "Frightful's Mountain" 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
Her eyes are wide open, searching, and when her gaze alights on Vivian’s face, it is startling in its intensity, stripped of any pretense or convention.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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
Rangers' search for a replacement quickly alighted upon Gerrard, who was of interest to club's American owners in the summer, before a number of issues resulted in him withdrawing from the running.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2025
It seems Gudegast and his cast of characters alighted for Europe with only a few ideas in place, and the tapestry of this world is not woven as tightly as the original.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 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
It alighted on the sill, considered the house one more time, and flew free.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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
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 ● Feb. 11, 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
Pointing to the first few birds spotted during the Temple City field trip — a pair of mitred parakeets alighting in a sycamore tree — Husic suggested another explanation for a perceived noise increase.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
Zeke asked, watching as Pelicarnassus flew across the playground to the jungle gym, alighting on its highest level.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
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