How to Use alight on/upon in a Sentence

alight on/upon

phrasal verb

• Millions of butterflies alight on oyamel firs, pines and junipers.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2021
• Birds can flap their wings to swoop, dive, glide, and alight on perches.
  — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2013
• Flocks of white pelicans alight on sandbars where the current ends.
  — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 May 2022
• 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
• Moths alight on flat, two-dimensional leaves and petals, and vases sit in pools of shadow that don’t seem to affect the vibrancy of the arrangements above.
  — oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2020
• Often, a pair of pigeons alight on nearby rooftops, their cooing a gentle nudge that a larger world still exists beyond our fraught lives.
  — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
• 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
• The most striking visual element is the floor-to-ceiling wood-burning fireplace, which offers a cozy spot to watch the snowflakes alight on the composite deck through a slider and windows that reach the ceiling.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Dec. 2022
• After a nine-day Atlantic crossing and a period of display in New York, this bronze original, one-sixteenth the size of her sister, will alight on the front lawn of the ambassador’s residence.
  — New York Times, 18 June 2021
• This species’ pitcher has a rigid, horizontal lid with an exposed underside that secretes nectar, luring insects to alight on it.
  — Darren Incorvaia, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2022
• In another, pleated-paper fans resembling butterflies alight on a floral sofa.
  — Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024