Sentence examples for not alight from inspiring English sources

The switch on Saturday 27 December caused further chaos at Finsbury Park station in north London, as it became so overcrowded that passengers could not alight from trains, and led to thousands of people being shut outside the station.

While California has suffered the largest number of large wildfires this year, more than 125, its governor did not alight from a helicopter after a tour of fires and pronounce that all of his state was burning, as Colorado's Bill Owens did last month.

The point is to highlight that good deeds and good intentions might not alight from time to time.

Because even in most of the states where the presidential campaign circus did not alight, there are important things to be decided, including which party controls the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives and by what majority and which party in what states will control the state legislatures and the governorships.

(wife) "It took me about eighteen months to get [the doctor] to... give her a test... later... my daughter... found the gas turned on and it's not alight, so... when I left for work I had to turn the gas off, then I really pushed the doctor".

But don't alight here hoping to take some home with you.

The birds couldn't alight on the mats and his head simultaneously.

Demolish them and the psi-vampires won't alight on your doorstep anymore.

It takes a local resident like James Boivin to know that these people aren't alighting here out of any particular wish to visit the neighborhood, but to duck Staten Island's sole bank of MetroCard turnstiles at the ferry stop.

Musically, Cabbage haven't alighted upon a new paradigm to match, say, the Mondays' squalid funk and scabrous disco, but new songs Necro Flat in the Palace and It's Grim Up North Korea, which draws parallels between British working-class life and Kim Jong-un's DPRK, indicate a move in the right direction, the latter evincing a degree of motorik propulsion.

The heather may not be alight after Tuesday's white paper.