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How to use the word &lit in a Sentence?

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He really lit a fire and kept the story going, he kept it on the radar, so Orchard knew we were not just going to away quietly.

Heather Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Man, he had a great smile. His eyes lit up. Loved life. Was always into something. Trying to make the city a better place, he was just always into something.

Andy Beshear

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Juul lit a nationwide public health crisis by putting addictive products in the hands of minors and convincing them that it’s harmless. Today they are paying the price for the harm they caused.

Letitia James

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As for working out, when I can, I love using my LIT AXIS portable training system, it’s the chicest and the fact that I can take it anywhere is game-changing.

Rachel Zoe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We would have two hours of electricity, then five hours without electricity, then three hours of electricity, it was really demoralizing, the worst thing about that was that the streets weren’t lit. And not all people use their torches or have [reflective] jackets to be seen on the road. And every week I would see a car crash from my balcony and some people died.

Yaryna Arieva

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is devastating news. Lisa had the greatest laugh of anyone I ever met. She lit up every room, and I am heartbroken, i find some solace believing she is reunited with her son Benjamin.

Nicolas Cage

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I braced myself, went in. The room was dimly lit, unfamiliar - I ’d been inside it only once in my life. I moved ahead uncertainly, and there she was. I stood, frozen, staring. I stared and stared. It was difficult, but I kept on, thinking how I ’d regretted not seeing my mother at the end. Years of lamenting that lack of proof, postponing my grief for want of proof. Now I thought : Proof. Careful what Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry wish for.

Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am so proud to have been her sister, she lit up the stage and screen. She knew how to dance in life and see the joy. Something we can all learn from.

Tracey Dowse

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One my favorite design elements is the striking stairwell with stainless steel handrails and back-lit risers that dazzle under a custom 30-foot glass chandelier.

Brad Dahler

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack.

United States

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We can do all this while keeping lit the torch of liberty.

The President

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He’s had a couple games where he’s lit it up and caught fire, so this seemed almost routine to me, other than that crazy corner 3 when he was super hot, that felt a little out-of-body experience-ish.

Steve Kerr

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He loved school and he was so happy today to be back in school after the long weekend and school COVID closure, his smile was contagious and lit up a room. His sense of humor was infectious, and the staff member said that staff are inconsolable at this time because they loved him so much.

Interim Superintendent Wayne Walters

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Night is an abyss at the edge of a footstep, raining anvils in a mercury-retrograde imagination needing chemicals. Fog is a curtain of anticipation. When lifted our way is lit by stars on a high dose of infinity.

Belinda Subraman

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

Most of them wanted a cigarette, and I didn’t smoke at that time but I, uh, I got a pack of cigarettes and some matches, and I lit their cigarettes for them, you feel for those guys, but I couldn’t do anything. Just light a cigarette for ’em and let ’em puff the cigarettes.

David Russell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My grandmother taught me everything I needed to know in life... so happy and proud to be following in her footsteps as a nurse, she was kind, loving and lit up every room she was in.

Gabrielle Kamentz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My mother was such a special lady, she lit up a room with her laughter, but she especially radiated joy and thankfulness when talking about the career she so loved and how lucky she was.

Kendall Errair

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When I lit the flame, I was super honored, i think that’s a position that you dream about and not anyone can do it. So, for me, when they asked me if I wanted to, I was very surprised but very honored. And I’m just very happy to be here and very happy to play — especially in Tokyo.

Maddie Meyer/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Once that email hit, the SAU community on Instagram just lit up.

Christopher Ingram

Found on CNN
2 years ago

She lit up a room, her heart was pure, she would do anything for anybody and the only person at the end of the day Siena ever hurt was herself, the demons of mental illness and the shackles of addiction took over who she really was at her core.

Sherry Jo Matt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think the perfect storm of COVID fears, locking down two-thirds of the population for 15 months, the self-induced recession, the Trump derangement syndrome, the George Floyd death, the 120 days of riots, the inactivity and inability to get people to meet one another, the crazy election, all of that was the spark or the fuse that lit the preexisting problems.

Said Hanson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

She had a really good spirit. She always had a smile on her face. Always lit up when she saw you. Always gave you a big hug, but I think most of her identity was, you know, outside on the bike, enjoying the outdoors was her thing.

Mike Castaldo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I looked to the left, and the apartment is half sheared off. I looked right ahead, which is where the elevators are supposed to be, it was just two empty elevator shafts, thankfully, the emergency exit light to the staircase was lit up, so we sprinted to the staircase and opened that door, only to realize that the wall had partially collapsed there. At that moment, it really hit me that we were racing against time to get to the bottom of the building before the entire thing came down.

Albert Aguero

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That just lit a spark in me.

Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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