We found 12 examples of how to use alight in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 12 of 12.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | She sets your world alight. | |
| 2. | His face was alight with joy. | |
| 3. | Red sky in morning; global warming. Red sky at night, reactor's alight. | |
| 4. | Please alight at the next stop. | |
| 5. | The fire brigade arrived to find the house well alight. | |
| 6. | Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so much gain—all their geese are swans—all their cards are trumps—toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster. | |
| 7. | The train doesn't alight here. | |
| 8. | "Alight and up take the sword of freedom. For the light shines and all the good poets are dead!" said Tom before he fell off the balcony to his death. | |
| 9. | "See yon twelve swans, in jubilant array, / whom late Jove's eagle scattered through the sky; / now these alight, now those the pitch survey." | |
| 10. | This train terminates here. Please alight from the train. | |
| 11. | Bvalltu and I, in company with the increasing band of our fellow explorers, visited many worlds of many strange kinds. In some we spent only a few weeks of the local time; in others we remained for centuries, or skimmed from point to point of history as our interest dictated. Like a swarm of locusts we would descend upon a new-found world, each of us singling out a suitable host. After a period of observation, long or short, we would leave, to alight again, perhaps, on the same world in another of its ages; or to distribute our company among many worlds, far apart in time and in space. | |
| 12. | Which stop do I alight at? |