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Sentence count:123+13Posted:2017-03-12Updated:2020-07-24
Antonym: rideSimilar words: highlightlightplightflightblightslightlight uplightenMeaning: [ə'laɪt]  v. 1. to come to rest, settle 2. come down. adj. lighted up by or as by fire or flame. 
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31. He was smoking in bed and his blankets caught alight.
32. The lamps are alight.
33. We watched as demonstrators doused a car in/with petrol and set it alight.
34. It is believed that the building was set alight/ablaze/on fire deliberately.
35. Often she fell asleep with the candle still alight.
36. Spitfire about to alight on Wasp's deck.
37. She found the garage well alight.
38. Something else was alight in the undergrowth.
39. They could have set the world alight.
40. Houses and cars were set alight.
41. A single standard lamp was alight.
42. Second, it must fly swiftly away from the nest and alight some distance from it.
43. Guillaume makes an impressive debut and with more interesting material, his scenes with Anne Brochet would have set the screen alight.
44. The sun set alight the water drops that speckled their leaves and shadowed the ground beneath them.
45. The bank was set alight 20 years ago and continues to smoulder.
46. A new album, 1965, was released on Columbia in 1999 but failed to set the charts alight.
47. Unfortunately, the London's pilot was fatally wounded, but his co-pilot managed to alight in a very rough sea.
48. Mr Chittenden had already doused himself in a flammable liquid and set himself alight.
49. Staff and customers watched in horror as he poured the petrol over himself and set himself alight.
50. Before I could alight from the carriage she was hastily walking away.
51. But it stayed alight and soon began to burn merrily.
52. Sister Maria Kisito supplied the petrol that the militiamen used to set alight a locked garage in which 500 people sheltered.
53. Any kind of open fire needs a considerable volume of fuel to keep it alight.
54. On successive Sundays he would repeat this ritual until every wick was alight.
55. Katherine took her son's hand and smoothed the plump skin, her pale eyes alight with love.
56. As more and more moths alight on her dress, she becomes increasingly hysterical.
56. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and build good sentences.
57. Only small, scattered and relatively harmless fires were still alight when the local fire brigade arrived.
58. Bales of hay and tyres were set alight, damaging the entrance of one office.
59. Fire investigators believe the living room was doused with petrol and set alight.
60. No sooner did Mother alight from her van than she was greeted by a barrage of stones.
More similar words: highlightlightplightflightblightslightlight uplightenlightlydelightslightlyblightedlightingtwilightlighthousedelightedlight bulblimelightmoonlightenlightenlightningcome to lightflight pathdelightfullighteningenlightenedinfrared lightvisible lighttake delight inenlightenment
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