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.
He watched the heavy blue fabric shredded open with the ragged capillary signature of summer lightning. KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
Overhead, lightning flickered frequently as the static electricity accumulating in the ash cloud discharged.
But, as it turns out, pioneering research into volcanic lightning is making his sparker seem not so crazy after all, and now a new generation of scientists believe volcanoes may offer up clues to the process of preparing the Earth for life. First Contact
Right now, the weather is great, but in the afternoon, they're concerned that these thunderstorms are going to move in, these so - called anvil clouds, which could contain rain or lightning, which could dangerous for the shuttle to launch. CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2006
And then, with a shocking crack, the lightning bolt frozen in the sky crashed to the mountaintop, and the arena went entirely dark. AMERICAN GODS
There wasn't any thunder or lightning, just rain, but it was quite a tempest nonetheless.
The house did not suffer any structural damage but when the lightning hit the house there was an enormous bang, the fuses blew and the power went.
His ex-wife drops his kids off for the weekend just before a bizarro lightning storm shorts out almost all the electric equipment in the area.
They may be able to compute figures in their heads with lightning speed or display a remarkable memory for dates.
There is also a swifter motion of a different sort of fire which strikes and dilates the ray of sight until it reaches the eyes, forcing a way through their passages and melting them, and eliciting from them a union of fire and water which we call tears, being itself an opposite fire which comes to them from an opposite direction — the inner fire flashes forth like lightning, and the outer finds a way in and is extinguished in the moisture, and all sorts of colours are generated by the mixture. Timaeus
Now the first bolt of lightning stabs the earth. It is heaven's exclamation point 3.
Behind him, lightning crashes across the stars and indigoes bleed from bruise to red as chemicals cut the sky. 365 tomorrows » 2007 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
They are alert, hawk-eyed, sharp-witted, with lightning reaction times. Times, Sunday Times
To the insatiable bloody appetite of this creature nothing comes amiss; he takes the male ostrich by surprise, and slays that wariest of wild things on his nest; He captures little birds with the dexterity of a cat, and hunts for diurnal armadillos; he comes unawares upon the deer and huanaco, and, springing like lightning on them, dislocates their necks before their bodies touch the earth. The Naturalist in La Plata
In the distance, staggered lines of other pukkawoods rose, each from a crack riven into the saltpan by the advancing lightning. Asimov's Science Fiction
Lightning conductors protect buildings and tall structures from lightning strikes.
His important poems were mostly published at this time, in 1650 and 1655, in the collection which he named 'Silex Scintillans' (The Flaming Flint), a title explained by the frontispiece, which represents a flinty heart glowing under the lightning stroke of God's call. A History of English Literature
Now the first bolt of lightning stabs the earth. It is heaven's exclamation point 3.
Count the seconds between the lightning and the thunder, each second represents 300 m distance from the thunderstorm.
This is why I had children: because of the lightning bugs.
The landscape was dark, occasionally lit up with a flash of lightning.
We're introduced to the title teen right before he learns he's the son of Poseidon and that he has two weeks to return a lightning bolt he didn't actually steal, lest Zeus start a Godly war (somehow without using the most powerful weapon in the world that was just stolen from him). Cinematical
The lord of the white alicorn was the first to rise from his seat; there was lightning in his gaze and thunder in his voice as he addressed, not Kyrtian, but his cousin. Elvenborn
n. - morbid fear of thunder and lightning. astringe v. - bind; brace; restrict; constipate. v. - guide (spaceship, etc.); v.i. navigate in space. astrogony Xml's Blinklist.com
As the second incision was made, I felt a strange lightning of pain play through the limb, defining every minutest fibril of nerve. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866
He's a soft-hearted romantic behind his leather and greased-lightning exterior.
There was a flash of lightning and the house was plunged into darkness.
I smiled each time my strobe synchronised with a brilliant lightning flash just above the jetty.
To me it was like a bolt of lightning out of a clear sky. Christianity Today
The pilot announced over the intercom that the plane had been hit by lightning but would be continuing its journey as planned. Times, Sunday Times
So he may appreciate the paradox of his lightning ascent in his second calling – not to mention the mutterings of those press-box colleagues who have toiled diligently for years without recognition from their trade's association and remember the days when they called him Captain Grumpy, a soubriquet he did his best to live up to. US hard courts will reveal if Andy Murray's lapses are part of a cycle | Kevin Mitchell
Over the course of the seven years that follow, Dana Scully risks her life investigating alien abduction cases, murders committed by genetic mutants like a man who eats livers and can stretch his body in improbable ways or a boy who is able to summon lightning or a giant flukeworm which has evolved to have a humanoid appearance and serial killers, some of whom may be incarnations of the devil. Epinions Recent Content for Home
There was thunder and lightning and it was freezing cold. Times, Sunday Times
As the light of day slowly dimmed, the world was lit by the angry flashes of lightning which crackled across the sky.
The uncertain flicker of the flames and sparks from our beacon (which, though itself invisible, darkened and lightened like sheet lightning), the dismal umbery glimmer of the waning moon, and the pale approach of day over the mountains to the east, made the face appear almost ghastly. The Dew of Their Youth
The old tree behind our house was riven by lightning last night.
During the training she unleashed several hook punches and uppercuts that were so ‘lightning fast’ they would subdue an aggressor before he know what hit him.
lightning produced an unusual union of the metals
The man shuddered,(Sentencedict) rippling like lightning through his hair.
It could get struck by lightning or smashed up in your car.
To me it was like a bolt of lightning out of a clear sky. Christianity Today
The story here concerns a pair of American innocents abroad—Lightning McQueen, the bright-red race car brightly voiced by Owen Wilson, and Tow Mater, the buck-toothed, good-hearted tow truck who speaks in the cornpone tones of Larry the Cable Guy. Oy Story: 'Cars 2' Is a Dollar-Driven Edsel
But for the history anoraks this was lightning striking twice.
He hurled it into the chest of the monster and the trident transformed itself into a shaft of lightning, exploding into the beast.
I guess its obvious that if anything attracted the lightning to him, it must be the tiny little iPod and not the huge hunk of metal called a lawnmower he was holding onto. Boing Boing
A bright fork of lightning struck the clouds ahead, and the outburst of thunder was deafening.
There were hailstones, rarely heard loud thunder, lightning, strong gusty winds and sheets of rain.
A single fork of white lightning slashed the sky, hitting the willow in front of her.
In a mad dash of effort, Noman climbed over the board like lightning.
The lightning zigzagged through the church yard.
Incidentally, the German Wehrmacht never officially used the word blitzkrieg -- literally, "lightning war" -- though it did appear in several prewar German military publications. Wired Top Stories
Crooked fingers of lightning nearly lit the sky afire, and the thunder crackled like shots from a cannon.
He moved unpredictably like lightning, zigzagging towards Kitsumi in a crookedly random path.
Skilling's arrogance, belligerence and lack of contriteness under questioning made him a lightning rod for the rage generated after Enron sought bankruptcy protection in 2001.
But then he also once dodged a bolt of lightning.
Thunder rumbles because we hear sound waves from different parts of a jagged lightning stroke.
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
Expect thunder, expect lightning, expect country and blues and rock and expect him to offer the unexpected, too.
A streak of lightning spiderwebbed across the sky above them, silhouetting Samren's figure against the grey sky that was quickly turning black.
A bolt of lightning descended from the heavens in a blinding flash of yellow light accompanied by the rumble seconds later.
Atop a mountain he slew his daughter, then was immediately struck dead by a bolt of lightning.
The stormy petrel soars with a scream, a streak of black lightning, as an arrow pierces the clouds, on wing-tip slicing the wave froth.
Her blond hair was being whipped by the wind and behind her black clouds boiled and lightning flashed, or so it seemed to George and the woman.
Trails of lightning Chimney Rock in southwest Colorado's San Juan National Forest.
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
The next town was Boyes, just 29 km down the road and as we rode towards it we saw flashes of lightning illuminate the horizon.
Some of the more spectacular and scary displays of lightning feature forked lightning bolts.
Suddenly, lightning lit the sky, revealing that beneath me was a sea of green, with waves and troughs, rises and dips that swayed in the wind like boiling water.
There was a sudden flash of lightning that gave the face blazing eyes. The Other Side of Me
But then a lightning bolt struck me and that lightning bolt was Sophie. Times, Sunday Times
Why not add a lightning bolt to make the scene a little more disturbing?
The weather was clear and there was no lightning. The Sun
He did invent lightning conductor.
Roman is lightning quick and improving every day in practice, and Bean showed playmaking ability in the preseason.
While researching my "Herne the Hunter" Suppressed Transmission, I ran across Henry James, Sr., and his "vastation" at Windsor:Suddenly in a lightning-flash as it were "fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Kenneth Hite's Journal
The vertical line of the hay fork's middle prong rises almost dead center and is echoed in window's mullion, the house's lightning rod, its porch posts and siding and even in the seams of Papa's overalls. American Idol
This, however, was no unwonted mood of passion with Darsie Latimer, upon whom Cupid was used to triumph only in the degree of a Mahratta conqueror, who overruns a province with the rapidity of lightning, but finds it impossible to retain it beyond a very brief space. Redgauntlet
And I saw a lightning bug at night, it's difficult to find it these days in Korea. It's wonderful!
The voice penetrated my deep cloud of sleep, a silvery bolt of lightning flashing through the underwater dream-currents.
How many streaks of lightning in each burst? A Short Guide to Writing About Science
There have been some discoveries at a place called Lightning Ridge. THE BLACK OPAL
The biggest casualty is Gareth Bale, the lightning quick winger whose hat-trick in the San Siro during a 4-3 group stage defeat ignited the club's European campaign. Tip of the Day
That night it stormed again and in the morning they set out through the driving rain, though the thunder and lightning had stopped.
Franklin had also been invited to advise Glasgow University in the matter of a lightning conductor.
The winged crocodile was kicked into the closet, after it were hurled the thunder machine and the lightning torch, and after them clattered the cups and the silver rundlet. The Dragon of Wantley His Tale
Although the NWS has, indeed, recommended the "crouch" as a last resort, the NWS's lightning expert himself, John Jensenius, told me that the advantage is slight -- not as great as some NWS websites imply. Lightning: To crouch or not to crouch...?
A flash of lightning lit up the night sky.
The recent thunder and lightning storm was the worst of its kind seen in the area for many years.
The old tree behind our house was riven by lightning last night.
Fractals are used in the study of things like forked lightning and to produce some types of computer graphics.
Thunder rumbled and lightning flashed, making the scene even more nightmarish.
From the walls of the room jagged flashes of blue-white lightning clawed out at the creature, outlining it in a momentary nimbus of sparks and power which faded in the blink of an eye.
Temple at Jerusalem, with all that about the 'Mark of the Beast;' that mock (I suppose it was _mock_) miracle, with the fire consuming the sacrifice, and then that awful portent of darkness, thunder, and lightning -- but no rain. The Mark of the Beast
Have you ever been struck by lightning?
The treesitters were driven out by the forest fires started by the Summer Solstice lightning storm -- they called the firefighting command center, said Farmer, to alert them that they'd put in a "ropes course" out there. North Coast Journal Comments
Many of the beneficiaries of this system were appointed very young after truncated studies, lightning ordination, and rapid progress through a hierarchy of lesser dignities.
He kissed her lips as the thunder growled again, the sky filling up with a flash of lightning.
Thomas reached up with lightning speed and was suddenly holding a bat.
The conjecture is confirmed by the name thunder-besom which is applied to mistletoe in the Swiss canton of Aargau, for the epithet clearly implies a close connexion between the parasite and the thunder; indeed "thunder-besom" is a popular name in Germany for any bushy nest-like excrescence growing on a branch, because such a parasitic growth is actually believed by the ignorant to be a product of lightning. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
The first was an unbelievable effort from the edge of the penalty area which required lightning reflexes and incredible skill. The Sun
Into his brain streamed one momentary lightning-flash of the Brahmic Splendor which has ever since lightened his life; upon his heart fell one drop of Brahmic Bliss, leaving thenceforward for always an aftertaste of heaven.
The guy swung and, quick as lightning, Bryce ducked and uppercutted the guy.
The stamps celebrate cycling, sprinting, javelin, swimming and hurdling as well as a race involving athletes with a disability in lightning-fast wheelchairs.
Before my wondering eyes the straggly but still stalwart pansies were ripped from their root systems and with lightning moves caladium bulbs took their place.
Thunder and lightning create some of the most spectacular natural displays to strike the summer skies.
A special system prevents the circuitry being tripped accidentally by a power surge or lightning strike.
She comments that lightning "attacks the 'pointed spire '[{lines} 64] of the church … throws aristocratic' stately towers '[{lines} 66] to the ground … [and] rends' in twain the iron-knit stone '[{lines} 65] of the church" (134). '[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great': Liberation in Joanna Baillies Poems (1790)
On the other side of the window, lightning pitchforked down through the sky and thunder clamored like it was stomping on the roof. Crescendo
The line of beads followed the line of the original lightning bolt. Times, Sunday Times
Use lightning-fast strokes of brow pencil to help define brows that are well-groomed.
I made it as quick as possible - the rain was still being blown hard against the windows and I could see large forks of lightning through the sheets of rain.
This finding suggests that massive runaway breakdown may have happened within the thundercloud in a process related to the initiation of the triggered lightning.
It can't be too windy, and there must not be any rain, thunderclouds, or lightning nearby.
He probably saw lakes and trees and lightning as actual, living beings, a view of the world called animism. Where To Park Your Broomstick
A peal of thunder followed the lightning with barely a beat intervening. THE HELLBOUND HEART
The lightning was the forked kind and it branched suddenly like a firework and yet like the limb of a blazing tree.
This was not a unique case of lightning curing a medical condition. Times, Sunday Times
The flash of lightning was closely followed by thunder.
The rain was swishing down and lightning rent the sky. Times, Sunday Times
The sergeant's jaw dropped and it looked as if he was trying to strike Manny dead with a lightning bolt from his gaping mouth.
Dark clouds had massed overhead, intermittent flashes of lightning jumping between them.
Officials say the lightning may have hit the eavestrough, causing the two-alarm fire to spread through the top floor of a corner unit and an adjacent unit at 9468 and 9470 Sheppard Ave. near Meadowvale Rd. Thestar.com - Home Page
The lightning strike also had an effect on South West Trains services running through Mortlake.
Two farmworkers were struck by lightning .
Up ahead were screaming clashes of thunder, and bright flashes of lightning.
It was pitch black outside, and the ground was dry and cracked, as if the storm had produced lightning but no rain.
It hit the pier in the center and went all to smash and scatteration like a box of matches struck by lightning.40 Mark Twain
I always feel vaguely cheated because lightning mesmerizes me and I watch it avidly when the opportunity arises.
‘Beautiful’ just doesn't do justice to the lightning bolt that is a bonefish.
A bolt of lightning flashed across the horizon and lit the sky.
Then, quick as lightning, he had her in a headlock and gave her a noogie.
The rain then makeup, summer rain, summer lightning, beautiful flowers.
The Lightning's goalkeeper is more proven, but Robert Esche has earned plenty of respect for his performance level right now. USATODAY.com - Eastern Conference finals preview
This time around you'll be fighting several variations of soldiers, including one that shoots lightning bolts all over the battlefield that somehow spawns new enemies.
The spring was not far from a tall Douglas fir that had long ago been struck by lightning and split, growing again in bifurcation. FOLLY
Lightning danced across the horizon, accompanied by low, rumbling thunder.
And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
She gasped in excitement as she saw bolts of lightning flitter across the sky, leaping from one bleak rain cloud to another.
He dared not risk a fight with this young lightning-flash, and again he knew, and more bitterly, the enfeeblement of oncoming age. The Famine
In 2007, New Scientist noted that a theory by John Abrahamson and James Dinniss of the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, suggesting ball lightning could form when lightning strikes soil, vaporizing any silica in it, had been supported by experimental work in Brazil. Ball lightning
Lightning struck down the hikers
Likewise, the Devil and the evil spirits, as incomplex beings — though far from perfect in their incomplexity, and very limited — act upon the soul rapidly, instantaneously, as rapidly as lightning or thought. My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God
According to Rolling Stone's Pentagon documents, the Rendon Group was charged with creating an "Information War Room" to monitor worldwide news reports at lightning speed and respond virtually instantly with counterpropaganda. Dr. Peter Rost: How a Public Relations Firm Helped Start the War
Bank staff are to stage a series of lightning strikes in a dispute over staffing.
Lightning flashed across the sky.
Painters often use the medium to make lightning sketches in situ to work up into larger finished oils back at the studio. Times, Sunday Times
One is shown hunting, and whereas its prey, the markhor or mountain goat, looks as craggy as the rocks it lives in, the snow leopard looks like an enormous kitten with butter-soft paws but with fantastic strength and lightning speed.
Funny, it was all right a few minutes ago when I called the drugstore, maybe that last lightning bolt hit a transformer, or the line may be down. Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet
It has only recently become possible to make a film like this at lightning speed, so that what goes out into the theater isn't out of date.
A streak of lightning forked across the sky.
Marks said the herd gathered around a tall tree to shelter during a thunderstorm when lightning struck the tree.
Jagged blue lightning stabbed through one of the ragged gaps and found the only thing in the office block that was moving.
The new phones will appear lightning fast and take better snaps. The Sun
We had cut away our mast, and lightened the boat of all she contained -- Clara attempted to assist me in heaving the water from the hold, and, as she turned her eyes to look on the lightning, I could discern by that momentary gleam, that resignation had conquered every fear. III.9
Cloud looked up at the mountain ahead of them and saw lightning shoot across the area.
I expect she was trying to escape the Suffolk weather, which, when it's not bombarding us with thunderbolts and lightning (very very frightening), is chucking meteorites at us.
A jagged scar blazes defiantly on his forehead, a scar like a lightning bolt.
Lightning rods, carpentry, and brickwork-all were spelled out, arrayed on legal-sized paper across seventeen numbered sections.
Thunder rumbled again, accompanied by a slash of lightning which lit up the sky for an instant.
Lightning flickered in the ragged aperture where the ground-floor staircase door had been.
From prescription, in the case of hypaethral edifices, open to the sky, in honour of Jupiter Lightning, the Heaven, the Sun, or the Moon: for these are gods whose semblances and manifestations we behold before our very eyes in the sky when it is cloudless and bright. The Ten Books on Architecture
The thunder pealed, and the lightning lit the sky in forked darts. Mates at Billabong
Three men came out from under the lowbrowed Tudor arch in the mellow facade of Mandeville College, into the strong evening sunlight of a summer day which seemed as if it would never end; and in that sunlight they saw something that blasted like lightning; well-fitted to be the shock of their lives. The Complete Father Brown
A flash of lightning and a peal of thunder heralded torrential rain.
He's a soft-hearted romantic behind his leather and greased-lightning exterior.
We hear thunder because lightning heats the air to more than 43,000 degrees, causing the air to quickly expand.
Thunder, lightning and a torrential downpour provided an unreal prelude in the futuristic San Nicola stadium.
There was a sudden flash of lightning that gave the face blazing eyes. The Other Side of Me
A bolt of lightning struck the roof of the building.
The storm is sweeping past, already the rain diminishes, the lightning pales, the thunder retreats till leagues and leagues away we hear it "moaning and calling out of other lands. An Island Garden
You can photograph lightning day or night, though night shots are generally more productive.
If you’ve had Netflix delivered from different addresses, you’ve experienced the disparity in service; some places it’s lightning-quick, others it’s just speedy. Hack Netflix « Snarkmarket
A bright fork of lightning struck the clouds ahead, and the outburst of thunder was deafening.
A flash of lightning" was how Ramón y Cajal described his observation of the preparation impregnated by the 'Golgi stain'. Articles - Medicine
But the demands of success hit them like a bolt of lightning. The Sun
Faye screamed as the lightning went through her body as electricity shocked her entire body.
Suddenly overwhelmed, cold lightnings aflicker in him, the boy stared past his father, outward and outward. Starfarers
For fans of witty musical numbers, there are sequences like the patter song in which Millie takes dictation from her stiff-necked boss, and repeats it at lightning speed.
In the latter two cases, the terms outlived the incumbents, as Quisenberry was dead from scarlet fever and Darey hit by lightning while woodcock shooting before the reservoir was half full. Stillwater
You can get struck by lightning just walking out of your house.
There was a sudden flash of lightning that gave the face blazing eyes. The Other Side of Me
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
Instead of generating a lightning strike, the corona discharge, as it's called, flees objects such the masts of ships, power poles, antennas, and the wings of aircraft, causing the glow.
The multi-million-pound Great House on Necker, the Virgin tycoon's 60million private island, was struck by lightning in the early hours of Monday when the region was battered by 90mph Hurricane Irene.
It is uncorked spiritual white lightning that startles and electrifies, as opposed to bottled white lightning that dulls the senses. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
Sheet lightning is just fork lightning that happens within a cloud, or when lightning is partly hidden by clouds.
These clouds often bring thunder and lightning, and can also bring funnel clouds or even tornadoes.
I am wearing a fetching pink leotard with a lightning bolt on it. The Sun
Like lightning, the alligator opens its mouth and snaps it shut just as the log swings by, reducing it to splinters.
A bolt of lightning hit his house earlier this month and damaged most of the electrical equipment inside.

How To Use Lightning In A Sentence

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