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heat lightning

NOUN
  1. bright flashes of light near the horizon without thunder (especially on hot evenings); usually attributed to distant lightning that is reflected by clouds

How To Use heat lightning In A Sentence

  • Heat lightning was breaking outside and there was a breeze from the ocean that was good for the soul.
  • The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. The English Patient « Books « Literacy News
  • Heat lightning was breaking outside and there was a breeze from the ocean that was good for the soul.
  • Heat lightning was breaking outside and there was a breeze from the ocean that was good for the soul.
  • thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning
  • Then finally -- it was dark outside, the hot still dark of summer's end, heat lightning aflicker beyond stockade and skeletal trees -- he summoned her; but when she entered the office, he rose and said: "Let us go to my private quarters. A Circus of Hells
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