Sentences with alight
a·light
A a - Several buildings were set alight.
- Her eyes were alight with a girlish enjoyment of life.
- We hang wreaths, string garlands, and set out family treasures in an effort to alight our home with the warmth of the season.
- After 15 hours of trial and error, it was an empty passionfruit shell soaked in rum and set alight that did the trick.
- A thrush alighted on a branch of the pine tree. [VERB preposition/adverb]
- Two men alighted from the vehicle. [VERB preposition/adverb]
- A spurned suitor who doused a woman in petrol and set her alight has been sentenced in Melbourne to 14 years in jail.
- Charlie Christian set the guitar world alight with his innovative single note lines.
- He would then suddenly alight on the tune he really wanted to play. [VERB on/upon noun]
- To alight from a taxi
- A thrush alighted on the wall
- The bird alighted on the tree.
- Passengers are alighting from the carriage
- A flying bird alights on a treeSnow alights on a roof.
- The sticks were damp and wouldn't catch alight.
- Her face was alight with happiness.