Sentence examples for are lit on from inspiring English sources

Photo: Ronald Boudreaux Jr., who serves in the Louisiana National Guard and recently returned from Iraq, watched his father, Ronald Sr., and Kaedrin Lee work on one of the bonfire structures along the Mississippi River in New Orleans that are lit on Christmas Eve to guide "Papa Noel" to town.

Arriving in Bruges as the lights are lit on a crisp, late-November afternoon, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the whole city is made out of gingerbread.

Signs are lit on the scoreboard for the 12-12-12 fundratsing concert at Madison Square Garden to raise funds for victims of Hurricane Sandy in New York.

While tequila is the key spirit in the Discipline, its unlikely pairing with amaretto and serrano peppers slices that are lit on fire — you blow them out — makes the cocktail nutty and spicy.

In Germany, great bonfires are lit on Easter morning, and there and in hundreds of other places throughout the world get up early on Easter morning to watch the sun not merely rise but dance.

The Return of the Native opens on Guy Fawkes Night with "red suns and tufts of fire" appearing in the darkness as bonfires are lit on Egdon Heath and neighbouring parishes and hamlets.

The fire had not been lit on my visit.

One candle is lit on the first evening, and an additional candle is lit on each subsequent evening until eight candles are burning on the last evening.

Garbage cans were lit on fire.

Cars were lit on fire, windows were broken.

The green "N" should be lit on your gauges.