Sentence examples for alight on something from inspiring English sources

Possibly, in rearranging, we'll alight on something new and better.

In Selfridges I alight on something conservative and hold it up for inspection.

Open a page at random and chances are you'll alight on something like, "Lakes are preppier than pools.

First comes the raw exposure to the subject matter: in the countryside the roving eye waits to alight on something, anything, that holds it - stone, rock, fissure, fall of water, bole of tree - and the sketch is made on the spot.

Then she alights on something.

It's about letting your brain roam until it alights on something unlikely.

It is a hit-and-miss game, but this project has alighted on something very real and powerful.

Forti is a petite, grandmotherly woman, and remarkably spry, willing to get down and roll on the floor, but at first she simply walked around the space, occasionally pointing upward as she talked about the weather's havoc — poetically, repeating certain phrases ("the moon was coming full…"), then alighting on something that she wanted to expand upon.

I would like to think people also recognise this is not something I have just alighted on out of nowhere; I first wrote or co-authored a pamphlet about this for the Centre for European Reform.

Not surprisingly, the T-Mobile forums are alight on this one.

Trump managed to alight on the unconstitutional ones.