alight
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The dramatic moment that lightning hit the roof, setting it alight, was captured by another resident.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 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
Hazardous waste -- often from Italy's wealthy north -- has long been set alight or buried in the area around Acerra, a city near Naples, in the southern region of Campania.
From Barron's • May 23, 2026
One imagines not the ghost of Cathy or Heathcliff, but a trio of women, very much alive and striding through the heather, their minds alight with the stories they would tell, set among similar terrain.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
When he did get one alight, he lay down and tried breathing into the twigs, to keep them going.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
Vocabulary lists containing alight
Fahrenheit 451
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