(v. i.) To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.
(v. i.) To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.
(v. i.) To come or chance (upon).
(a.) Lighted; lighted up; in a flame.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alighting upon the final four songs recorded by Drake, he pressed play and began to make notes before setting about mixing them for this putative release.
(2) The promise of exclusive photos and an "official chatroom" doesn't exactly set our world alight – but White is also promising subscribers four 7" records, four 12" records and four new T-shirts a year.
(3) Others wrecked the villa interior, poured fuel on the floor and set it alight.
(4) Villas of government officials were set alight and gunfire erupted in several districts of the city.
(5) (An official report later concluded that one of the men had set the van alight, killed the other and then himself.)
(6) That expectation was realized, with passengers from the oldest age groups having the highest relative frequency of accidents and vehicles with three steps being involved in a disproportionately large share of boarding and alighting accidents.
(7) In the small hours of the previous morning, an attacker had forced open a shutter, broken a window and set the inside alight .
(8) "I could be an MP…" And it suddenly occurs to me that Gardiner might just have alighted on the perfect profession for his skills.
(9) In a running confrontation, both sides threw molotov cocktails, one of which set alight a makeshift barricade in the foyer.
(10) Didcot resident Steve Shadbolt told the Oxford Mail that he looked across at the power station and realised that one of the towers was alight: “It burnt so fiercely that it spread to the next one ... it was quite a blaze.” The energy secretary, Ed Davey, said: “First, I want to thank the emergency services who are at Didcot working to tackle the blaze.
(11) Some of these new converts have alighted upon the basic income as an answer to our fragmenting welfare state.
(12) Cars were set alight and there were unconfirmed reports of petrol bombs being thrown.
(13) Falun Gong groups overseas dispute that - and in 2011 a man set himself alight near the site of the car crash.
(14) Tens of thousands of hectares of forest have been alight for more than two months as a result of slash and burn – the fastest and quickest way to clear land for new plantations.
(15) Photograph: Guim “The men shouted as they walked through the station having alighted from the train a short time earlier.
(16) Brotherhood spokesmen denied responsibility for the fires, but the local people everywhere say that it was groups of Brothers who attacked the buildings and set them alight.
(17) The young Somali woman who set herself alight on Nauru – the second refugee in a week to do so – has been taken to Australia by air ambulance, but her situation remains critical.
(18) On Rupert Murdoch's Fox News channel, the conservative commentator Sean Hannity recently alighted upon the case of Gordon Cook, a security manager from Merseyside, who used superglue to stick a loose crown into his gum because he was unable to find an NHS dentist.
(19) (" Setting a children's hospital alight is hitting the all time low.
(20) Bales acknowledged setting the bodies alight with a kerosene lantern.
Comedown
Definition:
(n.) A downfall; an humiliation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The song is that musical embodiment of bittersweet chemical comedown when you still feel divine but your heart skips a beat and you don't always quite catch your breath."
(2) We’ll probably never know what percentage of Labour MPs and experts are firefighting these events on a Glasto comedown.
(3) For the AU, it was a humiliating comedown after the inauguration of its new headquarters, which was accompanied by high rhetoric and performances by a brass band, dance troupes and singers.
(4) The comedown can be shocking in terms of feeling down or embarrassed by my behaviour, even if I feel that I wasn’t in the wrong.” Keane also accepts that his reputation means strangers are naturally wary in his company but argues that he is not the person many think.
(5) Theirs was a collective comedown from the adrenaline rush, exhaustion from an energy-sapping occasion inevitably creeping in as players attempted to comprehend what had just been achieved.
(6) For the person who led it from being just a concept that he struggled to interest carriers in, to a world-straddling behemoth, that's got to be a bit of a comedown.
(7) It was a big comedown, in personal and creative terms.
(8) But then the vision of a shrinking Fifa Fan Fest, which from the top of a building resembled an ant colony being dismantled by its own inhabitants, brought it all back home: the 2014 World Cup was over and the biggest Brazilian comedown was officially on – no matter that Rio de Janeiro’s most famous promenade, its bars, restaurants and car rental agencies still had a cacophony of foreign accents as a soundtrack.
(9) Our politicians have made a habit out of rejecting science, and we’re left with the comedown.
(10) He can joke about being approached by drug dealers in the street who mistake his quivering for a junkie's comedown.
(11) Whereas in reality, after I've savoured my coffee, there is only comedown.
(12) "Users told us there were terrible comedowns with mephedrone, but it was rather moreish," Measham said.
(13) Life after the political whirl of the White House was always going to be a comedown, even if you drink lots of coffee, and Engskov sounds like an ex-con when he says: "When I first got out of the White House I struggled … it was a difficult transition."
(14) That might be considered a comedown for a player who competed for the Belgian title while at Standard and began this season playing in the Europa League but he says the thrill of escaping relegation is similar to the buzz of challenging for higher honours.
(15) Insolvency amounts to a humiliating comedown for a studio with a back catalogue of 4,000 titles holding 205 Oscars between them.
(16) Rebecca Nicholson, writer John Grant provides a moment of magic For one all-too-brief hour, as the sun set over Glastonbury and John Grant took to the Park Stage on Saturday night, the unwashed festival masses were transported away from a world of mud, bruises and two day comedowns.
(17) JK Rowling's ranking – at number 15, with earnings of £13m – is a steep comedown since the heyday of Harry Potter in 2008, when she topped the highest-earners list with sales of £170m, more than the combined annual earnings of the nine other authors on the list that year.
(18) All Scottish newspapers suffered sales falls last month in the annual comedown in circulation following the boost given by the Edinburgh festival in August, according to Audit Bureau of Circulations figures published today.
(19) Spring Breakers is a glorious beast of a film, a morally ambiguous piece of pop art, a lurid trip with hallucinatory highs and ugly comedowns.
(20) The comedown from his moment of glory was swift and harsh.