Alight in example sentence

The Arab Spring Ten Years LaterTEL AVIV – When the struggling street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself alight in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, on December 17, 2010, he could not possibly have imagined how consequential his desperate protest would be.

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The pilot light inside of me was still alight, just as it is in each and every one of us.

He even attached matches to the brim of his hat and set them alight, so they sizzled menacingly whenever his ship was poised to attack.

It's alight with synchrotron radiation, and thousands of dots are in the sky.

So for instance, if you look along the plane of the galaxy, it's alight with synchrotron, which is mostly reddish orange, but if we look very closely, we see little blue dots.

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