Sentence examples for did lit from inspiring English sources

Created as objects of utility, the "raggly" or bedraggled antique quilts, squirreled away under mattresses and in chicken coops and wood piles, were often used to mop up motor oil, cover up cars from the rain and even, as Arlonzia Pettway herself did, "lit on a big old wood pile and burnt".

What Derek did yesterday lit up the day and the record and the twenty-seven extraordinary players already within his élite new circle, and reminded the rest of us, fans everywhere, that what we come for is always the game, the game itself.

Don't try to make lit matches disappear.

Imagine, if you will, using, "Do the lit" as an exhortation to spell correctly.

Does chick lit propagate a retrograde notion of women as shallow cretins – or reflect their nuanced reality?

That surely won't motivate people to make that extra contribution or get up early to do another lit drop.

The kids doing English Lit at Swansea aren't the ones who want to learn about Joyce and Conrad, it's the kids from Levski and Nairobi at London Met who do.

Last year, the Darkness toured the UK doing Permission To Land – which worked because it's mostly all bangers – but in May this year, Lit did A Place In The Sun at the Electric Ballroom in Camden, and that was … not great.

Why do chick-lit authors create ditzy heroines whose intelligence is strictly emotional – and even then a bit hit-and-miss – and whose preoccupations seldom extend beyond fashionable handbags and romantic fantasies.

There's this, and there was also an intuition I had that my own practice as a novelist – when, that is, my mojo was properly working – had far more in common with how composers conceive of the symphonic, than it did with the lit-crit – let alone the "creative writing" – view of how it is writers actually write.

He has won more green jackets than anyone, and the echoes linger still from his stunning sixth and final Masters victory in 1986, ringing as clear after 22 years as they did on that brightly lit Sunday.