Example Sentences

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"Alighted" and "Frank O'Hara Hit" drip with an easy sludge that most rock bands eventually outgrow.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2013

Alighted at the Kbely aerodrome this morning and motored in through the smoky industrial outskirts to the 'old town.'

From Time Magazine Archive

That old man climbed; the day grew dim; Two swans came flying up to him Linked by a gold chain each to each And with low murmuring laughing speech Alighted on the windy grass.

From In The Seven Woods Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

They, cleaving swift the air,185 Alighted soon on Ida fountain-fed, Parent of savage kinds.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

Alighted from carriage, we pass into a place like a banking-house, lighted up with gas.

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John