alight
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But this fire was different, he said, adding that "within two hours that whole set of mountains was alight, they just had no chance of stopping it".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 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 said residents should pour water on loose embers if close to their properties and "don't hesitate to call 999" if they catch something alight.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 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
The air around her seemed to shimmer with power, as if she was alight with some secret flame.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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
He never alights on an answer, but the search has prompted some of his best music to date.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2023
“A flying boat doesn’t land — it alights on water,” van der Linden said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
Her eyes are wide open, searching, and when her gaze alights on Vivian’s face, it is startling in its intensity, stripped of any pretense or convention.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
It seems Gudegast and his cast of characters alighted for Europe with only a few ideas in place, and the tapestry of this world is not woven as tightly as the original.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 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
Apparently, once we had left, the ravens had alighted together.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
However, five Chinese coast guard personnel, three of them armed with steel batons, followed by boat, alighted on the islet and ordered the fishermen to leave.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
If the man had not been looking in that direction, he would have missed him, but as it happened, his eyes alighted on the bird’s head and he drew in his breath in astonishment.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
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
When he got to the water trough, Matt alit and filled it from the pump as Tam Lin had always done.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
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
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
Leonardo’s mind, obsessed with the engineering of flying, was always in flight, alighting on higher and higher branches of knowledge and forever challenging the limits of how far he could soar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
Butterflies alighting along arms and in elaborate headpieces.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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