Words similar to alight

Example sentences for: alight

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The camera pans down the occupied seats, to alight upon a fresh-scrubbed English lass, who stands up and lets the peevish boy sit down, much to his self-satisfied delight.
Once there, he or she must alight from the vehicle and proceed to the mailbox, then return to the vehicle, turn it around and proceed to the road.
Get down , however, besides meaning to alight, also refers to loosening up or having sex (from get down to it ), as in the refrains of so many funk songs from the 1970's.
Peking Man simply learned how to capture flame, perhaps from a forest fire, and keep it alight.
The evening newspaper Terbit ran a photograph of charred bodies in a burnt-out truck in Dili with a caption saying they had been set alight by Australian troops, whereas the foreign media all reported that they were victims of militia terror.