Alight in example sentence

Then, with a large gesture he indicated the north half of the horizon: the Sonneville workshops had not received two-thirds of their usual orders; only two of the three blast furnaces of the Marchiennes Forges were alight; finally, at the Gagebois glass works a strike was threatening, for there was talk of a reduction of wages.

More example sentences with word alight

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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