Wondering how to use Alight in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as ablaze or land.
Alight meaning
- To make less heavy; to lighten; to alleviate, to relieve.
- Often followed by from or off: to get off an animal which one has been riding; to dismount; to descend or exit from a vehicle; hence, to complete one's journey; to stop.
- Often followed by at, on, or upon: of something aloft: to descend and settle; to land, to lodge, to rest.
Synonyms of Alight
Using Alight
- The main meaning on this page is: To make less heavy; to lighten; to alleviate, to relieve. | Often followed by from or off: to get off an animal which one has been riding; to dismount; to descend or exit from a vehicle; hence, to complete one's journey; to stop. | Often followed by at, on, or upon: of something aloft: to descend and settle; to land, to lodge, to rest.
- Useful related words include: ablaze, set down, land, perch.
- In the example corpus, alight often appears in combinations such as: set alight, alight in, well alight.
Context around Alight
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 7 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Alight
- In this selection, "alight" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, set, buses, body, sitime and fire stand out and add context to how "alight" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include add to alight sitime and and and caught alight. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "alight" sits close to words such as abound, arteries and autistic, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with alight
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But they had never tried to set it alight. (9 words)
It had spread, and all six stories of the building were alight. (12 words)
A car set alight on Highmead Road, Ely, Cardiff, during a large scale disorder. (14 words)
In August, four people were arrested following a series of incidents which took place between Thursday 27 July and Saturday 5 August on the street in which shots were fired on two occasions, and a motorhome set alight on the later date. (42 words)
Mark Crouch, an analyst at eToro, said: 'Unilever is one of those firms that isn't going to set the world alight with whizzy tech, but it does have very dependable household staple brands. (34 words)
A Barnsley man who has lived and worked there all his life says he has been forced to close his dealership after yobs set it alight just days after his dad's funeral. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
A Barnsley man who has lived and worked there all his life says he has been forced to close his dealership after yobs set it alight just days after his dad's funeral.
A car set alight on Highmead Road, Ely, Cardiff, during a large scale disorder.
A car was set alight in June 2022, highlighting part of Dubbo's crime problem.
A man threw liquid over a car before it was set alight after a street row escalated in Leicester.
As a result, we used this trim as a source of funds to add to Alight, SiTime, and Morningstar, where the risk/reward is more compelling.
A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: “We were alerted at 3.15am on Tuesday, 10 October, to reports of a vehicle well alight fire on West Coats Road, Cambuslang.
At around 15:30 hours, all the family members were reclining in their small hut used as a kitchen when it was set alight by the lightning.
A woman has spoken about how she and her son are lucky to be alive after petrol was allegedly poured through her letterbox and set alight.
But they had never tried to set it alight.
Cars were set alight and fireworks thrown at police after 100 to 150 people gathered in Ely on 22 May, the evening of the crash.
Chiltern Railways said the Bicester Village station will be shut on September 24, with customers travelling from Marylebone told to alight at Bicester North.
Earlier, thick black smoke had billowed from a central university campus in Dakar, where protesters set several buses alight in the afternoon and threw rocks at riot police who responded by firing teargas.
Fire crews were called to the blaze at around 5.30am this morning, finding a second floor unit well alight.
He faked his suicide by setting another person’s body alight in his cell.
In August, four people were arrested following a series of incidents which took place between Thursday 27 July and Saturday 5 August on the street in which shots were fired on two occasions, and a motorhome set alight on the later date.
In the latest sacrilegious act against the Holy Qur'an, two men set the holy book alight at a protest outside parliament in Stockholm on Monday, according to Press TV.
It had spread, and all six stories of the building were alight.
It’s believed the fire started accidentally after an item was left on top of the hob and caught alight.
L’Hay-les-Roses Mayor Vincent Jeanbrun whose home was ram-raided and set alight while his wife and child were asleep.
Mark Crouch, an analyst at eToro, said: 'Unilever is one of those firms that isn't going to set the world alight with whizzy tech, but it does have very dependable household staple brands.
Common combinations with alight
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- set alight 56×
- alight in 24×
- well alight 21×
- alight and 16×
- alight with 12×
- to alight 10×
- alight at 10×
- alight on 9×
- caught alight 9×
- it alight 7×