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The second ship, registered in Palau, was set alight by the drone but its Turkish and Indian crew members have been rescued.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

They can, however, tell commuters to stop disruptive behaviour, and those who refuse to cooperate may be asked to alight the bus or, in severe cases, face police intervention.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

On a summer night alongside the Colorado River, a line of telegraph poles is set alight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Once a recipe is chosen, clientele relax; zoning out in nearby chairs as glass tubes alight and the machine purrs from within.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

She and the driver helped a crumpled mass of moaning blue serge to alight.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

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 a butterfly briefly alights on a flower, fast action is essential.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

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

That forced shippers to look elsewhere and many of them alighted on Thailand and other countries in south-east Asia.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 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

I had alighted from Joe’s back on the brink of the ditch when we came up, and had not moved since.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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

A premise that had sounded a bit ridiculous—a trout mistaking my cast for an alighting insect—had been proven real.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

While the creations from independent L.A. brand Lucky Star Candle are technically burnable, I prefer to display them around my house like beautiful wax sculptures whose sole purpose is alighting aesthetic pleasure within me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

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

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 paper birds swirled upward in a massive formation overhead before alighting in a great circle on the ground.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill