How to Use lightning in a Sentence

lightning

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• The doctor told me the uv of the lightning of the stage did it.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 6 Nov. 2023
• The thunder came with the lightning; the beast was right on top of you.
  — Rich Cohen, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2023
• Piper’s voice struck the hall like a bolt of lightning.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
• Then, Franck Boli’s left foot struck the ball like a bolt of lightning.
  — oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2023
• The next day, its shares fell 60%, sparking a lightning-speed run on the bank.
  — Kathleen Pender, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2023
• The lightning bolts are still used as a sign of white supremacy.
  — Aria Jones, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
• At this time, the sky grew dark and was filled with thunder and lightning.
  — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
• The symptom that had brought her there was a lightning bolt-like pain in her head.
  — Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2023
• The flash of lightning and roar of thunder were seconds apart.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2023
• Bear in mind, a tent does not protect you from lightning.
  — Star-Telegram Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Mar. 2024
• Just as if there’s a lightning storm at an outdoor event.
  — Steve Knopper, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2023
• The thing about catching lightning in a bottle is that the glow lasts only so long.
  — Lizzy Goodman, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
• Many depicted a heart with a lightning bolt, but not all.
  — Stephanie Kuzydym, The Courier-Journal, 2 Jan. 2024
• Saturday’s game at the Rose Bowl has been postponed by the threat of flooding and lightning.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• The blue, white, red, and black sweater features Bowie's signature lightning bolt on each arm and his name spelled out on the back.
  — Brittany Talarico, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2023
• And as Krishnan pointed out, that’s around the same odds as getting struck by lightning.
  — Trisha Pasricha Md, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Aug. 2023
• If a bolt of lightning upends the supply of a good, then its price will certainly rise.
  — Kevin A. Hassett, National Review, 1 Dec. 2023
• One camera shot video, and the other had a lightning sensor to shoot still photos.
  — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• Our early ancestors must have craned their necks in awe when a lightning bolt lit up the night sky.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
• The season's final moments showed smoke breaking through the cracks of the Upside Down and the sky filling with red lightning.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
• The car is struck by lightning — and EW has an exclusive preview of what happens when the 118 arrives to help.
  — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 3 Mar. 2023
• In 2020, a late-summer dry lightning burst sparked scores of fires, turning a so-so season into the state’s worst on record.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• The air horn sounded again at 4:22 p.m. as another set of storms arrived, bringing heavy rains and the threat of lightning.
  — CBS News, 7 Apr. 2023
• The burst of snow is often accompanied by strong winds and even lightning.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2024
• The strongest storms could bring damaging straight-line winds, hail, lightning and heavy rain.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 13 Aug. 2023
• The main risk outside lightning and rain is isolated strong winds.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2023
• But the game is currently under a weather delay with lightning in the area.
  — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023
• But a few minutes later, another crash of lightning came in the area, halting play for the second day in a row.
  — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 5 June 2023
• Chance of lightning increases as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is overhead.
  — Star-Telegram Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Apr. 2024
• One of the creatures spat out by the Earth in self-defense against us careless people is Battra, a dark version of Mothra with a kick-ass lightning bolt pattern on its wings and a horn that shoots electricity.
  — Katie Rife, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024

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lightning

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• It’s both sweet and hot: There is lightning in her food.
  — Nick Rallo, Dallas News, 5 Feb. 2021
• The game was delayed by lightning with 5:15 left in the first quarter.
  — cleveland, 28 Aug. 2021
• The speed at which games load will also be lightning fast.
  — Gieson Cacho, chicagotribune.com, 9 Nov. 2020
• The main storm threats would be lightning, brief heavy rain and wind damage.
  — Washington Post, 25 May 2021
• The 5-foot-6 guard, who is lightning quick, is one of the rare players in the game who can make an impact on both ends of the court.
  — Doug Feinberg, courant.com, 4 Apr. 2021
• There’s a lot left to learn about lightning itself, too.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Sep. 2020
• That’s about the chance of being struck by lightning at some point in your lifetime.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Star Tribune, 7 Nov. 2020
• The 5-foot-6 guard, who is lightning quick, is one of the rare two-way players in the game who can make an impact on both ends of the court.
  — Kristen Davis, cleveland, 5 Apr. 2021
• The Clear Fire started by lightning last week and had grown to more than 9,500 acres on Monday.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2022
• The 5-foot-6-inch guard, who is lightning quick, is one of the rare two-way players in the game who can impact contests on both ends of the court.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2021
• Each year, more than 200 people are killed by lightning in the country.
  — Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2021
• Cleveland’s Caldwell was once struck by lightning on the mound.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2020
• Hundreds of those tress are believed to have been burned in that fire, which was sparked by lightning last month.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 20 Oct. 2021
• Regardless, the field will line up by class with the DPi cars starting at the front, rain or shine (but not lightning).
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2021
• That’s about half as likely as getting struck by lightning in a year.
  — William Petri, The Conversation, 13 Apr. 2021
• The blaze, which was sparked by lightning on Aug. 30, was 15% contained, according to the center.
  — Allison Prang, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2022
• Each sport is lightning fast, and his experience with each feeds the rest.
  — Ethan McDowell, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2022
• The complex was made up of three fires started by lightning on July 7.
  — Gillian Flaccus, Star Tribune, 19 July 2021
• That's still lightning speed compared with other projects in the region.
  — Washington Post, 4 July 2021
• The pain starts on the roof of your mouth and within an instant feels like lightning bolts bouncing inside your skull.
  — Washington Post, 20 July 2021
• In seventy-two hours, the state was struck by lightning eleven thousand times.
  — Dave Eggers, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2020
• Not quite the odds of winning the Powerball and being hit by lightning on the same day, but not much better, either.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2021
• Play was halted by lightning just before 2 p.m. with nine players on the course.
  — Randy Jennings, Dallas News, 16 May 2021
• There will also be lightning deals throughout the day, when certain items will be on sale for a very brief few hours.
  — Alexis Rhiannon, Allure, 27 Nov. 2020
• In the last two weeks of June, 12 new fires started by lightning after a system of storms moved through Arizona.
  — Audrey Jensen, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2021
• That comes to less than three-hundredths of a percent, or about the chance of being struck by lightning at some point in your lifetime.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2021
• Two flawed, heartbroken men are struck by lightning at the same moment.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 12 Jan. 2022
• Ackley shared an auction for a tractor that was struck by lightning this year.
  — NBC News, 14 Oct. 2021
• They’ve since been partially pushed back in Ukraine’s east by a lightning Ukrainian offensive launched in September, but analysts still warn the war is far from over.
  — Sam Skove, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2022
• There might be lightning crackling in the background; there are probably burbling test tubes and humming electrical gadgets.
  — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024