"lightly fell" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to describe a light shower of rain, for example: "A soft, warm rain lightly fell from the sky."
As a batch of 5-year-olds climbed out of the lightly falling snow yesterday and into the van, they showed a myriad of reactions.
By Phyllis McGinley The New Yorker, April 25 , 1936P. 18 Oh, lightly falling rain, View Article By Rivka Galchen By Ceridwen Dovey By Jia Tolentino By Masha Gessen.
The Moscow crowd was full of people like Raev: young and educated, with good jobs, but willing to stand for four hours under a gray sky and lightly falling snow to make themselves heard.
What you need for the right kind of Christmas, the scenes at the Cratchit house reveal, are a mommy, a daddy and half a dozen or so beaming children around the table; a "pudding still singing in the copper," as Tiny Tim says; a lightly falling snow outside; a blazing fire inside; lots of punch to toast with, and a good-size goose.
He grabs her, they walk down Fifth Avenue--this is true--and the snow is lightly falling, and he takes her to Scribner's [bookshop], and the windows are filled with 'I Chose Freedom.' They go to Faircourt, the old family estate, and as my mother said, just made love passionately.
If you're pushed lightly, fall over as if you were pushed a bit harder.
Ski the Alps in Switzerland or gaze upon Buckingham Palace in the lightly falling snow.
Look for a well-fit blouse made from soft, draping material that lightly falls over your body without clinging to it.
I heard a Velcro wallet ripping open, twenty dollars fell lightly into the locked plastic box, and the curtain rose.
Was "Lost in Translation" really, as it first appeared, a wistful commentary on the plight of Americans abroad, who shut themselves in their hotel rooms and fell lightly in love because it was sweeter, and less scary, than venturing outside?
