Sentence examples for managed to light from inspiring English sources

Our group even found a cache of tallow candles, and managed to light one.

The women managed to light a fire quickish, but also managed to get themselves separated and lost.

The Bobcats were the league's worst shooting team entering the game, but they managed to light up the Nets' perimeter defense.

He had sliced the side off the naptha can and managed to light a fire by burning oil in the open tin, and with that he lit the stove.

"He has managed to light a candle in the minds of the leaders who don't like globalization where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer," said one Middle Eastern diplomat.

The names Pantycelyn and John Davies always evoke a smile, quickly followed by a grimace at the recollection of the unique smell of disinfectant in the corridors and the stench of tobacco smoke when he occasionally managed to light his pipe.

The men got themselves within a day to the beach, but couldn't manage to light a fire.

Despite sounding slightly as though it is being read by a 1930s butler, World Service news manages to light upon international events that I suspect go ignored elsewhere.

She sits down, just about manages to light a fag with a shaking hand and morphs into the terrified (and terrifying) wisp of a girl from yesteryear.

It's a mark of Sarah Quigley's sympathy that she not only brings Shostakovich and Eliasberg back from the dead – and writes like a virtuoso about music – but that she manages to light up something of the Russian soul.

Instead of telling how beautiful she looks, say something like "I love how you manage to light up an entire room just by being you".