alight on/upon

phrasal verb

alighted on/upon also alit on/upon; alighting on/upon; alights on/upon

: to see, notice, or think of (something)

Her eye/eyes alighted on a strange man in the crowd.

a speaker who easily alights upon topics that interest a wide audience

Examples of alight on/upon in a Sentence

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This fall, a 16-foot-tall pigeon — its chest puffed out proudly, head high, not down pecking at some errant pizza crust, its pitiless red-eye gaze looking out over the traffic — will alight on the spur of the High Line that bridges Tenth Avenue at 30th Street. —Carl Swanson, Curbed, 31 July 2024

At key moments, these tendrils of sound alight on major and minor chords: familiar harmonies rendered new. —Jeffrey Arlo Brown, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023

For some time, there has been an assumption that — at one point or another — the Premier League will inevitably alight upon its own version of this approach. —Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023

His hobby is donning a pair of binoculars and identifying the various species of birds that alight on the trees in his Baltimore County backyard. —Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2023