Stock market sell-offs can be challenging times for investors. It's never fun to see your portfolio's value plunge suddenly. However, with challenges can come opportunities.

A silver lining of stock market sell-offs is that dividend yields move in the opposite direction as stock prices. Because of that, they often provide the opportunity to lock in even more lucrative income streams from some top dividend stocks. Dominion Energy (NYSE: D) and Brookfield Infrastructure (NYSE: BIPC)(NYSE: BIP) stand out as great dividend stocks to buy during sell-offs because a big decline would increase their already supercharged yields.

Dominion Energy currently offers a dividend yield approaching 5%. That's well above average, considering that the S 500's dividend yield is less than 1.5%.

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Source Fool.com