alighted
Example Sentences
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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
The face the London tube driver's gaze alighted on looked uncannily like his own.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2026
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
Apparently, once we had left, the ravens had alighted together.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
In consequence we alighted at the little community of Milo, twenty miles to the south, on unsteady legs and blinking at the suddenness with which our circumstances had changed.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
