alighting

Jacobsen traces the obsession back to the Pentagon, where senior officials had alighted on a new strategy to win the stalemated war.

The Capitol building — then much smaller and lacking its current dome, was also set alight.

The boosters were jettisoned, and the remainder of the rocket continued its climb into the deepest possible night, the Earth blue and alight behind it, an impossible blackness ahead.

Often, a pair of pigeons alight on nearby rooftops, their cooing a gentle nudge that a larger world still exists beyond our fraught lives.

Meanwhile, NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell is reportedly considering setting alight some of the Comcast-owned conglomerate’s cable TV networks as he reorients the Peacock parent around streaming.

Police responded and a check of the Goldman Sachs surveillance cameras showed three parachutists alighting on the pavement.

Kalman has a way of alighting on a moment in history, and animating it with personal details, both true and imagined.

Alighting from Pyne's car at the door, they went up to the flat of the organizer of the opium party—Mr. Cyrus Kilfane.

"But I must see her," Eloise said, alighting first and brushing past him, while he stood open-mouthed with surprise.

He felt as Columbus felt when he saw the land bird alighting upon his ship and the driftwood floating by.

On alighting from his elephant a salute of twenty-one guns will be fired by the horse artillery.

On alighting on the island they emptied their pouches on the sand—too often, I must confess, solely for my benefit.