Sentence examples for be alight from inspiring English sources
adjective
Lit, on fire, switched on.
- The sticks were damp and wouldn't catch alight.
The heather may not be alight after Tuesday's white paper.
In Iraq's southern Rumaila oil fields, which produce 60% of the country's oil, only nine out of 1,000 wells are reported to be alight.
(The extra coals should be alight and up to temperature - a chimney starter is the easy and safe way to light and distribute them).
This included flammable parts to the window frames that spread the fire to the external cladding within 15 minutes of the first 999 call, at just before 12.54am from a householder whose fridge freezer appeared to be alight.
One minute he would be laboring some abstruse point in his Southern drawl, the next his face would be alight with a snaggle-toothed grin, and his body would be electrified by the joke he had just slipped by me, deadpan.
In addicts, areas of the prefrontal cortex that would normally be alight with activity often go dark in the absence of the drug, a state researchers call "hypoactive". And dulling of brain areas that are crucial to decision-making could be what drives addicts to continue using the drug even when the consequences are ruinous.
So the car was alight with triumph.
Her eyes are alight like coals.
Social media was alight with comments".
Why's that?" "It's alight".
