alight造句

The house was alight with candles.

She will alight from the fiacre.

Prepare to alight,for we are almost there.

Jake and Neytiri alight from his legendary mount.

Cars were set alight, flaming barricades erected and police ambushed.

The World Cup will be set alight by African footballers.

The firewood was so wet that we couldn't get it alight.

Passengers should not alight from the train until it has stopped.

Martha looked up into a strange face and dark eyes alight with kindliness and concern.

The waning October afternoon is so hushed, he can hear snowflakes alight.

Leaf-green pierid alight on the sandy shores of the Tuichi River in Bolivia's Madidi National Park.

Throughout the video, the accused could be heard threatening to douse the victim with petro and set him alight.

The official Xinhua news agency cited a witness saying the fire began when building materials caught alight.

Returning to the candle he sets his brew alight and offers it to a nameless God in a gesture of supplication.

This week an inquest heard how Ms Pilkington eventually shut herself, her mentally disabled daughter Francecca and her pet rabbit inside the family car, and set it alight.

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. — n. Hawthorn.

The mildest of these is simply that these insects were named because they tended to alight on milk or cheese left unattended.

He broke her nose on one occasion and, when he discovered she was pregnant, doused her bed with kerosene as she was sleeping and set it alight.

Two men and a woman face life in jail for tying a teenager to a tree, pouring petrol down his throat and setting him alight in a gruesome re-creation of a scene from a horror film.

WHEN Ron Paul ran for president in 2007, he was gratified to hear students at one of his rallies start chanting “End the Fed”, while setting dollar bills alight.

"Baoyu longed to alight and go with her, but knowing that the others would not agree he could only follow her with his eyes as their carriage drove swiftly off. Soon she was out of sight. "

In South Africa two white farmers accused of forcing a black man into a coffin and threatening to douse him with petro and set him alight have abandoned their bail application.