alight on/upon

phrasal verb

alighted on/upon also alit on/upon; alighting on/upon; alights on/upon

: to see, notice, or think of (something)

Her eye/eyes alighted on a strange man in the crowd.

a speaker who easily alights upon topics that interest a wide audience

Examples of alight on/upon in a Sentence

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Parasite’s portrayal of these upstairs-downstairs dynamics is even more overt; the members of the struggling Kim household, who live in a basement-level apartment and juggle odd jobs, alight on a crafty employment scheme after encountering an ultra-wealthy family. —David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025

Those seeking crumbs of comfort might alight on a recent slew of changes behind the scenes. —Jack Lang, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025

After an interlude, two juveniles came prancing down the vines, hopping along to alight on the parkia. —Jessica Camille Aguirre, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025

This fall, a 16-foot-tall pigeon — its chest puffed out proudly, head high, not down pecking at some errant pizza crust, its pitiless red-eye gaze looking out over the traffic — will alight on the spur of the High Line that bridges Tenth Avenue at 30th Street. —Carl Swanson, Curbed, 31 July 2024