alight

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

The blonde executive assistant to the president was then mentioned by a Democratic senate hopeful, in comments that set the internet alight -- and incensed the White House.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Firefighters attended multiples fires in Stoke-on-Trent after fences, gardens and garages were alight.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

The passengers were all obliged to alight, and the four men ordered by the coachman to push the wheels out of the rut.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

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

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

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

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

A poor fisherman in a Turkish village was retrieving his net from a lake when he found that a white stork had alighted on his boat.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2024

Serafina Pekkala flew down toward the launch, leaving the dæmons out of sight above, and alighted on the counter just behind the steersman.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

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

Instead of arriving overland, the symbolic flame alighting the 2024 Paris Games will take to the seas from its birthplace in Greece, arriving aboard a three-masted tall ship in the French port of Marseille.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2023

Pointing to the first few birds spotted during the Temple City field trip — a pair of mitred parakeets alighting in a sycamore tree — Husic suggested another explanation for a perceived noise increase.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2023

Apparently when Mahmoud had gone up to the roof, the birds had flocked to him, alighting on his shoulders and arms, and he was so charmed that he couldn’t send them away.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers