Alight in example sentence

They untied her hands, made her alight, accompanied by her goat, which had also been unbound, and which bleated with joy at finding itself free: and they made her walk barefoot on the hard pavement to the foot of the steps leading to the door.

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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