Sentence example with the word 'alighting'

alighting

Last update: July 31, 2015


0

After a frenzied honk and finger from a following motorist, Fred pointed out a man alighting from a bicycle and climbing the steps of 137.   [Please select]

0

And then, thank goodness, gently as a butterfly alighting on a rose, it stopped.   [Please select]

0

With a swift and angular flight, they go from flower to flower, without alighting.   [Please select]

0

Its call-note is a twitter, which it rarely utters, except when taking flight and alighting.   [Please select]

0

Alighting upon this he proceeded to enter, without hesitation, the open window.   [Please select]

0

On alighting he uttered a low, hollow chuck suggestive of the sepulchral.   [Please select]

0

, and who, on alighting, presented a most wretched appearance.   [Please select]

0

"A cloud passed over the sun just as we were alighting on a tree to rest."   [Please select]

0

But Rachel turned to him before alighting.   [Please select]

0

In Eastern countries it is the practice to bathe the pigeon's feet in vinegar to keep them cool, and to prevent it from alighting in quest of water, by which the letter might sustain injury.   [Please select]

0

Scot Skirving informs me that he often saw crowds of pigeons in Upper Egypt settling on low trees, but not on palms, in preference to alighting on the mud hovels of the natives.   [Please select]

Do you have a better example in your mind? Please submit your sentence!

Submit
alighted - alighting - alights