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Sentence Examples He suffered third degree burns to his feet and legs after two young men poured lighter fuel over his lower body and set him alight. A shop was set alight, 25 cars were burnt out and two police officers were injured. The Canada jay is the smaller and less aggressive bird and does not eat or alight on the platform while the Steller jay is feeding. However, tragedy occurred once again during a bush fire in 1902, catching the house alight and burning it to ashes. He also gave police an insight into his thinking, ideas that led him to set the bush alight. They found the wood and breeze block building well alight with flames shooting up above the trees. Missiles were thrown, petrol bombs were hurled, barricades were erected, cars were set alight and so on. In some skyscrapers, storey upon storey of offices were alight, although others were not. Petrol bombs were thrown inside the US embassy compound, setting alight a satellite dish and a sentry box. This is stacked in heaps by the women and children and is set alight once it is dry. Enormous plumes of choking black smoke fill the sky where the oil has been set alight. The felled timber and leaves are piled high in 1km rows as far as the eye can see, ready to be set alight. As more jagged ribbons of lightening above set the sky alight, Ely swore aloud as he was blinded. The tournament was set alight by a brilliant Dutch team playing Total Football. In February last year the market hall was mostly destroyed after it was set alight by arsonists. It had been spotted by a member of the public after it was set alight and abandoned shortly before midnight on Wednesday. As the crowd tripped the light fantastic, Gareth and Joseph pulled apart a huge Christmas cracker to set the city alight. A pair of acrobatic American goldfinches alight on a cylindrical hanging bird feeder, hungrily searching for thistle seeds. The fire spread after a mobility scooter parked outside their home in a sheltered housing complex was set alight. The fire had started accidentally when fat from the chip pan caught alight. Show More Sentences Blown under the porch roof by the wind, snowflakes alight on Beth Durand's curly brown hair, and on the pale rounded swell of her cheeks. About 5.00 am mark the Paschal Fire will be set alight and it will be blazing brightly in the sky as people file up for the 6.00 am Mass. The panels had stopped jittering and a screen display in the center went alight. This attack only managed to hole her above the waterline and set her alight. Tara held a small piece of twisted cloth soaked in oil over the little flame and the oil soaked cloth caught alight. A classroom was trashed and walls were daubed with graffiti spray before the wooden library door was set alight. Two quick-thinking councillors saved an elderly people's home from going up in flames after yobs set it alight. The appeal follows a recent spate of vandalism where bins have been set alight, plant pots have been kicked over and garden furniture damaged. Her eyes were alight, her hair flaxen, her golden skin shining with more than just the glow of youth. The fire was still alight, as a burning island floating on the water filled pit. The city's skyline was alight with fires rising from timber godowns and warehouses. He can hardly enter a room or alight from a car without a press posse descending, hungry for a photo or off-the-cuff remark. But celebrations were happier in Australia, where Sydney's famous harbour was alight with colourful fireworks. With the footboard just 40 cm high compared to one foot for ordinary buses, senior citizens and disabled can board and alight easily. When we arrived a number of pallets had been stacked up against the outside the building and set alight. Years later he would confess among his past sins the desire to set alight the house with his mother and stepfather in it. And as soon as it's dumped, it's usually set alight, sending smoke into their houses. A burning car exploded and shattered the front room window of a house in Rawcliffe Avenue, Breightmet, after being set alight early today. Rommel ordered houses upstream of the crossing point to be set alight in order to provide a smoke-screen. The fire in the bucket set alight the sundeck and quickly spread to the rear of the house. Show More Sentences About 5.00 am the Paschal Fire will be set alight and it will be blazing brightly in the sky as people file up for the 6.00m Mass. They had been separately ignited or in contact with something which was already alight but had not spread from one site to another. Petrol had been poured through the letterbox, said a spokesman for the fire service, and was then set alight. Oh good I thought, but apparently I slept through the car being set alight, the firemen coming and a tow truck. A sub-standard home is scheduled to be set alight by fire crews, then demolished by a digger. Among the dead were seven people trapped in houses set alight when a firecracker ignited a stack of fireworks. The Scout Group's base, in was completely gutted by fire after it was deliberately set alight last night. Fire officers are certain her faulty electric blanket started the fire in which her hair and nightdress caught alight. The Vauxhall was driven into a crash barrier made up of the tyres and either went on fire or was set alight. Cars were also set alight close to Leinster House, the Irish Parliament Buildings, amid heightening violence. Mr Trevis alerted the emergency services after a fire in his inglenook hearth set the chimney alight. His blonde hair was bright and neatly combed, his soft brown eyes alight with the essence of life itself. A pillar box was set alight in the Washwood Heath ward, apparently to destroy postal votes. Cheating reached such depths that a pillar box was set alight in an attempt to destroy completed ballot papers, she said. When he joined the company as finance director six years ago, the City was alight with speculation that it was about to be taken over. He was woken by his dogs barking at 12.20 am and he looked out of his window to see his five bay Dutch barn alight. A fairy cake was dipped into liquid oxygen and then set alight to show how much energy, and therefore calories, it contained. It certainly seems to have failed to set Dublin alight with our more customary northern passion. If the sitting room we were in was alight with all the lamps I'm sure my face would have looked a color similar to that of a beetroot. It is hours since the campfire guttered to ash, but the stars remain alight, burning with fluid intensity. Show More Sentences He then emptied the whole bottle of spirits on to the clothing and set it alight. It was thought that a candle had fallen over and set alight the paperwork in an office in the garage. As I sat in the garden one warm June morning, a painted lady butterfly flew down to alight on a white anemone. Firefighters said the man had emptied his cigarette stubs into a bin without checking if they were alight or not. He sets the film alight, literally, while newcomer Evans plays the straight man perfectly. The 31-year-old has never set the world alight but he has grafted away in the background and is the world's 39th best player. The tree brought down electrical and BT lines, with a live cable setting the tree alight. Perhaps Euclid's ghost is stalking the English countryside by night, leaving its distinctive mark wherever it happens to alight. He said youths who started out setting cars alight often moved on to house fires and other more serious arson attacks. She broke the walls of His study, setting every ill-omened text of unclean lore alight. A succession of flights of these smallest of British geese swept in low over the saltings to alight on the fresh-water flood to drink and bathe. Cars were set alight, buses were stoned and fireworks and bottles thrown at cars. Two firefighters, in breathing apparatus, entered the maisonette to find the main lounge room alight. Tiny blue azures alight in the grass, and cabbage whites hover over the vegetable patch. The Olympic flame is the symbol of any Games and keeping it alight requires enormous technical skill and knowledge. The moon was at their back, and the enemy used mortar-fire, Very lights and fire-bombs, setting the corn alight. A search of the gutted property, one of a row of houses set alight just a week earlier, was made after a neighbour reported hearing cries for help. The grapevine and the international media were alight with the buzz of the student killed by the police during the demonstration. On the eve of the Amanda Knox appellate verdict decision, Perugia was alight with a sort of surreal buzz. Mercury goes rogue again this week, causing your mind to wander and alight on the serious alterations you must make to your life. Show More Sentences On Sunday 2 June, the wherry Albion will carry the original Millennium flame from where it has been carefully kept alight, in Great Yarmouth's St Nicholas Church. Passengers waiting on platforms do not wait for people to alight before they board trains, and so when the changeover occurs, pushing and shoving becomes the order of the day. Her fingers alight on a blue-bound novel and she opens it randomly. The 60-year-old was trapped inside his home for crucial minutes while fire crews dealt with rubbish set alight by pranksters on the other side of town. Everything was in shambles, set alight with fire and misted by smoke. Mr Swales said they were also concerned about surrounding businesses as the blaze started to spread and set alight a fourth floor fire escape door on an adjoining building. The house was petrol bombed and set alight several times during this time. As I slept, the moon outside shone brightly, and the black sky was alight with stars blinking down over my little neighborhood in suburban New York. For a moment, Anna's face would be alight with sunshine, and then the next a shadow of leaves would be cast over it, before it opened into sunlight again. No sky alight with revelation crowns this picture, only a small triangle congested greeny-yellow by the monsoon, crammed against the top of the frame by the massif. I remember this painting setting me alight with inspiration 30 years ago. Okocha has set English football alight with his increasingly stunning form and dazzling skills, sparking rumours that he is destined for a bigger stage. They had captured the Boer laagers and set their ammunition dump alight. I'd been to The Bronx only once before, and had exactly the same sensation then, so that by the time you alight you might as well be landing on the moon. A small smile touched her lips, her eyes alight with a lunatic fire. As part of the celebrations a menorah was lit and although there was only enough oil to light the menorah for a day, it stayed alight for eight days. The man was using the metho when it caught alight and exploded. Her face was alight with anticipation as she set the chalk down, reached up, and began to unfasten the top golden button to her modest daisy dress. The jury at Preston Crown Court had been told how small-time drug dealer Mr Barnshaw had been beaten and doused in petrol and set alight after being kidnapped. He shouted at a handful of passengers, who boarded another bus bound for the same destination, and forced them to alight, leaving all their belongings in the bus. Show More Sentences I don't know what you've done to your nature strip, which resembles an overgrown miniature botanic gardens, but it makes life difficult for my passenger to alight from my car. And if you try scooping it up and setting it alight, you end up with a field full of eco-mentalists complaining about the smoke and a sticky glutinous stain. The legs were also placed along the limbs of the corpse and all covered with the skin before mantras and oblations were made and the funeral pyre set alight. Obviously comfortable with the relationship, capybaras are unfazed when cowbirds alight on their heads and begin to peck around their eyes and ears. The ground floor of a Surbiton home was completely gutted by arsonists who sprayed a flammable substance inside the property before setting it alight. Frequently, he pauses to alight and hang beneath the drooping stem of a bluebell to sip nectar, his pale sulphurous wings contrasting splendidly with the deep blue flowers. The boardwalk was alight with rides, stands, and a giant Ferris wheel. The flex from a deep fat fryer was over the hob and set the fryer alight. This picture was subsequently published showing the South transept alight with a list of North Yorkshire firefighters attending. One victim was a 61-year-old witch doctor, known locally as a Sangoma, who died when the mob burned down his home and set him alight in Khutsong. The pair, both 23, were found bound and stabbed to death in a bedsit in New Cross, south London, that had been set alight. When they returned, Jade's cheeks were abloom, her eyes alight with anticipation. While the FAEC-Khobar was little more than a yawner the Falcons and Jakals set the stadium alight with pulsating action on the hardwood floor. Who was that lithe, bendable gymnast setting alight the Olympic flame? In Buenos Aires they overturned cars and then set them alight. The defendant had poured petrol over her husband and set it alight, causing burns from which he died. In early medieval era hides were used to protect wooden castles and defence buildings from setting alight during a siege. Sometimes they sets theirselves alight, but not orfen, for it aint much o' a fire aunt leaves in. Caernarfon, however, was still only partially completed and was stormed by Welsh forces and the castle and town set alight. The flame left Orkney shortly before 12pm heading for Shetland, kept alight in a Davy lamp. Show More Sentences The culprits are believed to have set fire to the net curtains which then fell to the floor and set the floorboards alight. A SCHOOLBOY who set a care home alight after playing with a cigarette lighter has been given a rehabilitation order. A dumper truck worth hundreds of thousands of pounds was set alight on a development site. Where ancient myths and spellbinding tales will set your imagination alight and your hair on end. Experts found the fire had been caused by a rocket which had been put through the cat-flap in the door, setting paper and other material alight. It was a speculative 25-yarder from Ruane that set Town alight and they profited again when Steve Kehoe miskicked to give Carroll his chance. Viking heritage is claimed by Clan MacLeod and Norse tradition is celebrated in the winter fire festival at Dunvegan, during which a replica Viking long boat is set alight. Huskisson seized the opportunity to alight and stroll alongside the train. Someone found a pick and levered a burst plank out of the floor, and in a few minutes we had got a fire alight and our drenched clothes were steaming. Unlike most seabirds, frigatebirds are not able to alight on the water. For secondi, Italian classics alight the menu such as grilled whole Branzino and the porchetta-inspired Pancia di Maiale, served on fennel and cannellini. The plane, bound for Oslo, was forced to double back after both of its protective engine cowlings blew away on take-off, setting one engine alight. Flaming sambucas are made by pouring the spirit into a glass with coffee beans before setting it alight, producing a blue flame which is extinguished before it is drunk. Firefighters believe the sun's rays caught a magnifying vanity mirror on a table and bounced the light back on to a pillowslip, settling it alight. Our second longest inpatient manages frailly to alight from the shower. First, the concourse area where passengers board and alight was completed. The Tea House at Kew Gardens was set alight by Suffragettes Olive Wharry and Lillian Lenton in February 1913 during a series of arson attacks that occurred throughout London. The town of Port Said sustained great damage and was seen to be alight. The system with request stops has normally marked bus stops where a bus is not obliged to stop unless a passenger indicates a wish to board or to alight from the bus. He has passed on the torch to us and it is our duty to keep it alight. Show More Sentences Alight Sou'easter took the fleet east from Rushcutters Bay to Shark Island, then under the Harbour Bridge to Goat Island before heading back to Clark Island. Examples from Classical Literature There was a noise of business from the gasworks, and the electric lamps were all alight. Lansdale tells it circumstantially, keeping his pipe alight in the periods. Had a hand-grenade with the fuse alight been dropped upon the table, the consternation could scarce have been greater. I remember we passed a gypsy bivouac on our journey, with fires alight, on the edge of a great, heathy moor. Willis's taxi ran on past the other, and through the backlight the inspector saw Archer alight and pass into the hotel. It was required that an oil-lamp should hang before the high altar, always alight, in honour of the reserved sacrament in its pyx. I am sorry to incommode your Highness, but may I ask you to alight for a moment? But it has been found that even when it is too poor to keep alight it will explode in the combustion chamber of a gas-engine. Again we take a leap of about twenty years, and alight in the midst of the Revolution. I asked a scillonian, half in fun, whether they always kept their lamps alight as late as half-past nine. Sometimes the leaf-cutting bee has time to alight and stick her head into the mouth of the pit. It is strange to think that Peter did not alight in the church and forbid the banns. He was alight with new visions, new themes, and his voice had a lordly ring. As the brougham halted at its portals an old and medalled man rushed forth, touched his cap, and assisted Edward Henry to alight. The bee, whose habit it is always to alight on the edge of any plane, has to travel through the paint to reach the bee-bread. Certain it is they will not alight upon the skin which has been plentifully anointed with it. As soon as they saw the dudish student alight, dress-suit case in hand, the Rovers rushed up to him. As he came up his foxy eyes were alight with what he intended for a grin of amiability. Sitting in my barn-door study I see a vesper sparrow fly up and alight on the telephone wire with nesting-material in her beak. They only kept a candle alight, standing on the ground behind the wardrobe. Show More Sentences She set alight to the bower-aloft And it burned up speedily, And her good love and her great heart Might all with eyen see. An aged winkie, dressed in a uniform of silver cloth, came forward to assist them to alight. Here, Garson paid the fare, and then helped the girl to alight, and on into the hallway. The other day I saw a yellow-bellied woodpecker alight upon a decaying beech and proceed to drill for a grub. They had pasties to eat, and burnt their candles so long as they could keep them alight. The flyman was leaning through the door of the fly, helping some one to alight. There's no air, and I noticed the binnacle alight, so it must have been nigh dark under that funnel cloud. The glow-worm was alight here and there, burning out into the great universe. Vali's corpse is borne aloft by fellow monkeys in a palanquin which is then placed on the funeral pyre and set alight. Nor when we alight at the Pas de Soucis are these features wanting. At this point we alight, our water-way being blocked for nearly a mile. Her eyes were alight, and she was babbling away to her aunt. It was, undoubtedly, the Abolitionists who set the torch alight, who began the whole thing. A HOMELESS man was beaten, stabbed 100 times, and dumped in a whee lie bin which was set alight before he was left in a stream to die. The intrepid aeronauts alight before a small dark house, once the residence of Mr Sampson Brass. We all alight the train and disappear down a rabbit hole to the Underground on an escalator. My lamps are all alight, and I have contravened no law, surely! Upon which he bid the postillion alight, and look into the ditch. Ruth Whitton, 68, was killed when petrol was poured through the letter box of her home in Baglan, South Wales, and set alight. His eyes were alight, and he emitted a deep-throated guffaw. Show More Sentences They will scour the jungle for him when he is far away, and we and our children must run when the grass is set alight. Then one man thrust a bundle of furze into the oven and set it alight. But, in a gusty, uncertain wind it must use its wings or alight somewhere. And then Sir Marhaus alight down, and bad the duke yield him or else he would slay him. Biggar is a good player but is never going to set a game alight which is what we need to beat the Southern Hemisphere teams not more of the same. London reached, the travellers alight, the old housekeeper in great tribulation and confusion, Mrs. I'm not at all used to flying, and the best plan would be for me to alight in some place, and then I can turn around and take a fresh start. The walls were all on fire and the back wall had fallen in, the wooden roof was collapsing, and the rafters were alight. He set alight an unsent letter to his ex-partner the night before he was due to be discharged from the unit, Teesside Crown Court heard. Grace's face was alight with appreciation of Mrs. Gray's gift. Kohli indeed has gone on to write a lot of history, while Parnell has played international cricket without really setting the world alight. Nothing too slender or too fragile for the white flight to alight upon. At Padua, but nine miles distant, our passengers were to alight. In between watching TV and skiving he managed to purloin the Fowlers' new double-bed and set Arthur's bench alight. A FIREBUG was being hunted last night after an empty house was set alight just weeks after an pounds 85,000 revamp following an earlier blaze. Aunt Jamesina, too, had written, saying that she was keeping the hearth-fire alight, and that the cats were all well, and the house plants doing fine. Alight shone from the window of a hut, and swiftly they advanced towards it. That was near the bridge that crosses the canal by the gasworks.There was a noise of business from the gasworks, and the electric lamps were all alight. Hereupon, they each and all tried to alight on her two palms and ten small fingers and thumbs, crowding one another off, with an immense fluttering of their tiny wings. Find more words! 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