How to Use alight in a Sentence

alight

1 of 2 verb

• A group of tourists alighted from the boat.
• There are just too many doorsteps, and too many things that need to alight on them.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 28 June 2023
• Birds can flap their wings to swoop, dive, glide, and alight on perches.
  — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2013
• Just lie back, gaze upward, and streaks of bright light should alight your eyes.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 22 June 2018
• The 300 Angels are alighting today because it was declared the date of the founding of the city.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 7 May 2018
• Bomber rose, dove, and then alighted on Mr. Freeman’s glove.
  — New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018
• Much of the blame would alight on Mr. Gandhi’s leadership.
  — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
• The Zaks wondered how the spill would affect birds, who could alight on an oily patch and absorb it in their feathers.
  — Matthew Ormseth, courant.com, 21 Jan. 2018
• Woodpeckers will sometimes alight on your house and start their rat-a-tat heading.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 17 July 2019
• There are beach breezes alighting on areas of my skin that have never felt breezes before.
  — Kaitlin Menza, Marie Claire, 29 Sep. 2017
• During that stay, the pair took a bus to Washington, alighting at the Greyhound station.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 31 July 2023
• Visitors never forgot the roar of the big birds alighting.
  — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
• Many protesters set their headscarves alight or hacked off their hair, and called for the downfall of the Iranian regime.
  — Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
• On cue, a pair of birds appeared, swooping through the air and alighting on dead trees to attack them like jackhammers.
  — Justin Gillis, The Seattle Times, 11 Aug. 2017
• At the end of the six-minute boat ride, alighting on a dock in East Boston, Ms. Medvedow strode through an active shipyard and marina.
  — New York Times, 22 June 2018
• He's used to living like an emperor who relished nothing more than circling the globe and alighting to pose with heads of state.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2020
• The rockets hit at random, setting buildings and at least one car alight over different city blocks.
  — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2022
• The music fans who would have streamed into Coachella and the cinephiles alighting in Cannes retrace ancient routs and rites of pilgrimage.
  — New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
• Milroe’s beautiful streak across and down the field on that 3rd-and-15 brought Alabama out of the darkness, and then Gibbs set this land of midnight Walmart alight with fire that chased down the dawn.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 1 Oct. 2022
• On this evening, Washington is alight with media stakeouts.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 20 July 2017
• The Lake Erie coastline is should expect billions of the annoying bugs to alight on signs, walls, patio furniture and just about any outdoor space in the next few weeks.
  — Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland.com, 18 June 2019
• Soon my wandering eye alighted on the next table, where two men were slurping a verdant broth — green curry pho.
  — Brooke Hauser, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2023
• Among the passengers who alighted was a young woman from Santa Barbara.
  — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Aug. 2019
• And on Monday night, a bouquet of flowers alight with Christmas ornaments appeared in front of vacant homes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2020
• His face is alight with the glow of discovery—equal parts scientific interest and little-boy hope.
  — Mike Sager, Smithsonian, 13 Sep. 2017
• 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
• To simply point out that Trump had improbably managed to alight on the correct course of action was to have written a favorable profile of Osama bin Laden.
  — WSJ, 15 Feb. 2021
• Google’s Snow Games festivities kick off with a magpie, a good luck symbol in Korea, alighting on the Google logo before a stiff winter wind blows in an icy frost.
  — Eli Meixler, Time, 9 Feb. 2018
• That flight became public when his wife, Louise Linton, posted an Instagram photo of herself alighting from the plane, and then sniped at a commenter.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2017
• To then, not return to the carriage at the destination stop to check whether the passenger has been able to successfully alight, is frankly lazy at best and broadly negligent.
  — Gus Alexiou, Forbes, 26 June 2022

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alight

2 of 2 adjective

• The sky was alight with stars.
• Enemy soldiers set the building alight.
• Yet his bland style has not set the broader electorate alight.
  — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2021
• Detectives think it was set alight sometime in the past 15 days.
  — Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021
• The United States is alight with the flame of revolution.
  — Time, 5 June 2020
• The black flame candle is alight to the Sanderson sisters’ delight.
  — Alexia Fernández, PEOPLE.com, 1 Nov. 2021
• The black flame candle is alight to the Sanderson sisters' delight.
  — Chloe Melas, CNN, 2 Nov. 2021
• Less than an hour before the game started the skies were alight with lightning and a heavy downpour deluged the field.
  — Brendan Kurie, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2021
• For nearly two weeks, the Scottsdale Waterfront will be alight with large-scale works by artists from around the world.
  — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2021
• Adults carrying babies and holding the hands of young children alight from the craft.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2021
• At the end of the evening, the audience filed out, masks still on, eyes alight with elation at having finally heard a show.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
• The first victims are seabirds, graceful creatures that alight upon the ocean’s surface.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2021
• Three Thousand Years of Longing were allowed to have their fun, setting the red carpet alight.
  — Douglas Greenwood, Vogue, 30 May 2022
• In video verified by NBC News, the wail of sirens can be heard as huge flames licked up multiple stories of the building after it was set alight by the crash.
  — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2022
• The main event will be more than enough: a chance for fans to rediscover — and fall back in love with — an album that kept them alight through some very difficult years.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 May 2022
• Videos of burning Ukrainian wheat fields set alight by Russian forces are making the rounds on social media.
  — Eric Tegler, Forbes, 12 July 2022
• Residents will be able to dive off at one side and alight at the other, which is certainly a glamorous, if damp, way to call in on your neighbors.
  — Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 26 Apr. 2021
• Toward the end of July, the goldfinches alight on the tall stalks of purple and yellow meadow rue, setting off ripples of movement.
  — Nancy Hass Ngoc Minh Ngo, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2022
• The sweep of the park downslope from the Music Center toward City Hall was alight with marigolds and altars of different expressions and themes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2021
• Canadian artist Cassils has been set alight on stage, wrestled a 2,000-pound block of clay in the pitch dark and trained as a bodybuilder on a cocktail of steroids, raw eggs and protein.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN, 13 Oct. 2021
• Art finds a way to occupy almost any material and alight in any tool.
  — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2021
• Dozens of trucks carrying lumber have been set alight in furious protest.
  — Eduardo Thomson, Bloomberg.com, 15 Oct. 2020
• More than 330 vehicles were set alight in Oromia, an area in the center of the country, as well as the capital Addis Ababa.
  — Fox News, 24 July 2020
• At checkpoints, choking plumes of black smoke rise from burning tires set alight by security forces to keep warm.
  — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
• And so late one night, when a young man and woman alight from a carriage and enter the house next door — a house that Miss Butterworth knows to be vacant — and the man leaves alone, well, Amelia is all over it.
  — Anna Katharine Green, Star Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
• The black mother-of-pearl dial is alight with bright jasmine flowers, and Top Wesselton diamonds mark the hours.
  — Nancy Olson, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2021
• Several Palestinians this week flew kites with oil-drenched, burning rags on their tails in an attempt to set alight Israeli fields on the other side of the fence.
  — Rory Jones, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
• Twitter and LinkedIn are alight with loud voices calling the start of an economic apocalypse and the collapse of the housing market.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• Wonder which royal stories will set Twitter alight in 2021!
  — Emily Dixon, Marie Claire, 15 Dec. 2020
• Brathwaite saw a young man taking photos in a dark jazz club without the use of a flash, and his mind became alight with possibility.
  — Wallace Ludel, CNN, 4 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024