alight upon

For some time, there has been an assumption that — at one point or another — the Premier League will inevitably alight upon its own version of this approach.

He felt close enough to touch, as though at any moment I might feel his fingertips trail down my spine or alight upon my hips.

The first victims are seabirds, graceful creatures that alight upon the ocean’s surface.

The trio think the death is solved — as the police do, ruling it a suicide — then Mabel and Charles both alight upon the same idea in the middle of the night.

Chris Wilder is yet to alight upon a pairing that looks capable of turning things around.