alight
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a·light·ed or a·lit, a·light·ing.
- : to dismount from a horse, descend from a vehicle, etc.
- : to settle or stay after descending: The bird alighted on the tree.
- : to encounter or notice something accidentally.
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Examples
I’ll fantasize about setting colonial summerhouses alight using dendrites & neurons.
Titmice have been spotted dive-bombing cats, alighting on dozing predators’ backs and plucking strands of hair from people’s heads.
Every few days, he would commute down the highway from his sleepy coastal town of Castelldefels, set Europe’s biggest stadium alight, then drive home to his wife and three sons.
Fall visitors to South Walton often land another treat, too, as swarms of Monarch butterflies alight in parks and beachside neighborhoods starting in late September.
As they alight briefly, the eyes acquire the image of a group of letters roughly equal to one word and then immediately jump farther along, pausing to sample another word or two.
The grapevine and the international media were alight with the buzz of the student killed by the police during the demonstration.
Who was that lithe, bendable gymnast setting alight the Olympic flame?
All the men were shot, their bodies set alight—often before they expired.
In the last five years, a dozen camps have been set alight across the country.
The words at the bottom summarized what kept that hope alight.
“With pleasure, my dear fellow,” said the major puffing vigorously for a few moments to get his pipe well alight.