Sentence examples for lit upon from inspiring English sources

"There are some good gags, but having lit upon something that tickles them, screenwriters Adam McKay and Chris Henchy don't so much milk their jokes as desperately wring them dry," she writes.

He has, I am told, lit upon David Willetts as a policy guru: a good choice.

Recent studies of "The Tempest," for instance, have lit upon inspirations from half a century before de Vere's death.

A camera roving the East Lothian course lit upon Lady Alliss (I have conferred her husband's knighthood).

The species Dr Schwarze lit upon are Physisporinus vitreus, a type of white rot, and Xylaria longipes, commonly known as Dead Moll's Fingers.

In 1965, he began making paintings of words, phrases, and invented codes on monochrome canvases, but destroyed most of them after he lit upon the date motif.

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — America, that shining city upon a hill, seems ever more like a half-lit town upon a hummock.

But her face LIT up.

Lit up.

Fine; a lit match is decided upon instead.

In search of late night Chinese eats, we stumbled upon a brightly lit diner called Sunday Bistro.