| When searching for food a great spotted woodpecker usually alights on the trunk then works upwards and often from side to side. |
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| He begins sniffing petrol, hallucinates at an open religious site and accidentally alights the community centre. |
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| On another occasion, an origami bird alights by letters in a banner hanging on a wall. |
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| The eye alights on a shoe here, the leg of a doll, bedding, pictures and shards of broken mirror. |
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| I don't mean this to be a criticism, but doctors tend to lump any ache or pain which alights on me in with my cancer. |
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| In adopting it he alights on areas that others might have missed and creates what is surely some of the most extraordinary and original writing currently in print. |
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| Emergence occurs after a stylopized wasp alights on flowers, and subsequent transport of first instars to the nest is phoretic, via a foraging wasp. |
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| The frigate bird is perhaps the most aerial of all birds except the swift and alights only to sleep or to tend its nest. |
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| He briefly alights on the historical context of Mongolian expansionism. |
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| It is a relatively weak flier and can be followed closely as it remains near the ground and alights frequently on vegetation. |
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| At last a big bus sweeps in. And the first person who alights is a woman with a white veil. |
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| The taxi driver is solely responsible for executing the transport service, from pick-up until the Passenger alights from the vehicle. |
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| Asked who his most difficult opponent is, he talks about the team-mates he faces in training and then alights on Pablo Zabaleta. |
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| She alights one second on the branch of the birch located just opposite to the entry of the nesting box. |
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| Mr Strycker also alights on the amazing biometrics of hummingbirds, whose pea-sized hearts are the largest of any bird when measured in proportion to the bird's body mass. |
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| A crow alights on a coconut tree and at the very same moment, by chance, a ripe coconut falls. These two unrelated events seem to be related in time and space, though in fact there is no causal relation. |
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| He alights with a slow, decided step, leaning on the rail. |
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| The butterfly usually alights again at or near the same spot. |
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| With pleasure, humor and seriousness, Beat Takeshi Kitano has thrown himself into Gosse de peintre, an unusual project that subtly, if impertinently, alights in the realm of childhood. |
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| Its winged ballet causes our hearts to deliciously skip a beat as it delicately alights on a long necklace in yellow gold, or dives amongst pearls, pyrope garnet hearts and amethysts. |
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| In a fourth type of oviposition, the female alights on some object protruding from the water and crawls under the surface, depositing the eggs while submerged. |
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| A dentiroster alights and sings on the branch of the plum tree. |
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