NOUN
- someone who is a frequent target of negative reactions and serves to distract attention from another
- a metallic conductor that is attached to a high point and leads to the ground; protects the building from destruction by lightning
How To Use lightning rod In A Sentence
- His numerous scientific and practical innovations include the lightning rod , bifocal spectacles, and a stove.
- The senator has become a lightning rod for criticism.
- Not surprisingly, they've become a lightning rod for industry critics.
- On one of the lightning rods, a crow sits and caws.
- The Sierra based Lightning Rods are incredibly quick around Bovingdon, where the cars' sheer bulk and power leads to a tight pack of bumper-to-bumper racing throughout the day.
- She became such a lightning rod that she crisscrossed the country raising money for endangered incumbents but campaigned publicly with only one or two during the fall sprint. As Democrats lose House, Nancy Pelosi's historic reign as speaker ends
- A day after that thumping Bush dumped his secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, who had become a lightning rod for all the dissatisfactions surrounding the Iraq War, and installed in his place the consummate Washington insider, former CIA director Robert Gates. The Longest War
- In a harsh economic climate, raises for teachers have become a lightning rod for criticism.
- Yet Franklin also invented bifocals, the lightning rod, the Franklin stove, a flexible urinary catheter, not to mention the armonica [glass harmonica], and, with his cousin, was the first to name and to chart the Gulf Stream. July « 2008 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
- After many decades of debate, the North American end-Pleistocene megafaunal mass extinction remains a lightning rod of controversy.
