Sentence examples for alight when from inspiring English sources

Just before Christmas, Athens was alight when Greece endured its worst rioting in 30 years.

The basement, ground, and first floors were fully alight when the fire was at its most fierce.

He then opened the valves on the bottles before trying to set them alight, when firefighters arrived.

Young is probably the person on whose name you would alight when confronted: "Name someone on Five".

Pakistan: It would be madness to recklessly take on another armed group of Pashtuns, setting the frontier alight, when we haven't got the means to cope with it.

"We did not set things alight when we first went up to Division Two, but the turning point was at Stamford Bridge when we beat Chelsea 4-2.

A white halo of hair hovers around his head, his walrus moustache is silver, and my soul alights when I realise it is my teacher, my maths teacher from elementary school, a likable man who suffered a tragedy years ago, I cannot recall what, and disappeared.

Although the railway staff advised passengers to remain on the trains while this took place, around 50 of the dignitaries on board alighted when the Duke of Wellington's special train stopped.

Lena Dunham set Instagram alight this weekend when she debuted her new platinum blonde bowl cut.

The death of Ms Bland had already gripped social media, but the case was further set alight this week when local police released dash-cam video of her original arrest.

Creagh struggled to achieve definition in a contest that may only come alight next week when the first televised hustings take place.