Example Sentences

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While the creations from independent L.A. brand Lucky Star Candle are technically burnable, I prefer to display them around my house like beautiful wax sculptures whose sole purpose is alighting aesthetic pleasure within me.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

Oh! there he is alighting from his horse!

From Notre-Dame De Paris by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

A servant rushes to the window and tells us that his mistress is alighting.

From The Theory of the Theatre by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker

All flurried, she arises and signals the conductor that she is alighting here.

From 'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!' by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

He is alighting with the nimbleness of a youth, in spite of his seventy-one years.

From Napoleon and Blucher by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)