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[ UK /lˈa‍ɪtnɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫaɪtnɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more
  2. abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light

How To Use lightning In A Sentence

  • But the demands of success hit them like a bolt of lightning. The Sun
  • There was thunder too and lightning and in places rain. Bomber
  • They shoot up from the tops of thunderstorms about the same moment lightning discharges within the storm cloud.
  • The long punishing jaws of a borzoi can snatch up small and not-so-small varmints both wild or domestic with lightning speed.
  • There was a sudden flash of lightning that gave the face blazing eyes. The Other Side of Me
  • Lightning raids in class are entirely justified. The Sun
  • Thus, among many of the tribes the sun is wakanda — not _the_ wakanda or _a_ wakanda, but simply wakanda; and among the same tribes the moon is wakanda, and so is thunder, lightning, the stars, the winds, the cedar, and various other things; even The Siouan Indians
  • A sudden flash of lightning lit everything up for a second.
  • Instead he plays Arthur as a terrifying yet avuncular figure, apt to switch from jovial bonhomie to murderous rage with lightning speed.
  • His golden eyes glinted as he suddenly moved trough the crowd with lightning speed and grabbed a young boy by the collar.
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