alight

Example Sentences

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They alight in a waterlogged Liverpool and discover the broken social factions that have cropped up in the wake of environmental collapse.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026

Photos from the site of the crash showed rescue workers helping passengers alight the train, which had fallen off the rail tracks and partly tilted over the side of a cliff.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025

It was set alight in the early hours of Thursday morning in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda East, Victoria police said in a statement, describing it as a "suspicious fire".

From Barron's • Dec. 25, 2025

Luckily, the V & A Dundee museum and Royal Research Ship Discovery offered much more to set my imagination alight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

That was something else to think of: the matches were running out, and so was the naphtha for the stove; she must keep the fire alight day and night from now on.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman