[
UK
/ɐlˈaɪt/
]
[ US /əˈɫaɪt/ ]
[ US /əˈɫaɪt/ ]
VERB
-
to come to rest, settle
Misfortune lighted upon him -
come down
the birds alighted
ADJECTIVE
-
lighted up by or as by fire or flame
even the car's tires were aflame
candles alight on the tables
a night aflare with fireworks
forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning
houses on fire
How To Use alight In A Sentence
- Please urge all ultralight owners with BRS units (or even hand-deploy parachutes) to re-evaluate the series of attachments that connect the pilot to the airplane, to the parachute, and to both.
- After a pleasant trip, Richard and I alighted from the train at Kal.
- The latest additions to home collection includes bowls, boxes, picture frames, tealights and window ornaments.
- Despite those twenty years, it was the same old Tom Travers that alighted from the Pullman. BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
- An olive grove is alight, fire spreading in the dry heat, and the hillside is consumed by flames. Times, Sunday Times
- The Captain shrieked, his face alight with fury.
- To give extra thrust, the engine reheat method was used which alights fuel in the jet pipe, giving her the title ‘Rocket’.
- Thurgh thyn humblesse, the goost that in thalighte, The Canterbury Tales
- A big, majestic study for this sculpture, in pastel, charcoal and acrylic on brown paper, finds two shadowy birds alighting, and a ghostly doubled head, its mouth stretched painfully wide.
- My eye alighted on an old book.
