alight
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A huge blaze near Stourbridge Golf Course saw about 100 firefighters battling the fire which spread rapidly through dry grass and woodland, setting alight six homes.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 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
He found a city rebuilding itself: a functioning airport, paved roads some lined with restaurants and street lighting keeping once-feared neighbourhoods alight after dark.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
Rawiya held Moss for a few seconds, and then Bits was there, their eyes alight in pride and respect, and Moss hugged them, hard and sincere, before leading them all away.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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
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
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
She alighted close to the tree trunk, where her dark back feathers and striking black head would blend with the bark.
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
Late at night when we walked home from the laundry, they should have been sleeping behind locked doors, not overflowing into the streets in front of the benevolent associations, all alit.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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
These days, Lacey divides her time between Brooklyn and Mexico City — during the pandemic, she left a relationship, sold her home and cast about before alighting in Mexico City, almost on a whim.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 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
The roof of the main building was alive with the alighting and departure of helicopters.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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