Sentence examples for alight across from inspiring English sources

Previously unpublished statistics seen by the BBC show that, in the year since the revolution, there has been a five-fold increase in the number of people setting themselves alight across Tunisia.

In Retour Des Etoiles (above), a throbbing neon pulse of color alights across a scorched pink void in a never ending journey towards a glowing ring of light.

Instead, there was a series of sinister ambushes, many of them on public transport.A year ago some 10,000 vehicles were torched and 233 public buildings set alight in the banlieues across the country.

Within 10 minutes it was really alight and was sweeping across the whole building".

The MQM (Muttahida Qaumi Movement) has declared a 10-day mourning period and violence has been reported in Karachi, with cars being set alight and guns fired across the city.

And of course, there's the true-fairy-tale ending, with Brown astride a T. rex, lumbering across Central Park, the American Museum of Natural History alight in the distance.

Two nights later, Tottenham in North London was alight and riots started to spread across the country, costing millions of pounds in damages, devastating communities and swamping the criminal justice system.

A star-studded concert will be held at Horse Guards Parade in London, while hundreds of beacons across the UK were set alight on Friday to mark the moment peace was declared.

This 'dwell' time is at the mercy of how long it takes passengers to board, alight and disperse within the train carriage or across the platform.

Mr Grigoropoulos' killing on 6 December 2008 sparked violent riots across Greece, with cars being set alight and shops looted in a number of cities. Clashes have also broken out on previous anniversaries of his death.

Writer Mark Lynas likens a 6C world to Dante's sixth realm of hell, replete with fireballs shooting across the sky, setting the planet alight into one never ending burning inferno.