How to Use lightning strike in a Sentence

lightning strike

noun

• The launch pad endured a lightning strike on April 27, but SpaceX said the rocket was healthy for the attempt.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
• Not even a 2011 lightning strike and fire could shutter the Wanamaker Feed & Seed.
  — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Mar. 2023
• In one last piece of trauma for Meredith, the house caught fire after a lightning strike in the fall finale (no one was hurt).
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2023
• In fact, the switch would still be in place, happily doing its thing, if not for a lightning strike near my home a couple of months back.
  — Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2023
• But no one has pinpointed the proverbial lightning strike that sparked it into life.
  — Simeon Tegel, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
• The fire, which was extinguished in less than an hour, is believed to have been caused by a lightning strike, said Jason Evans, a spokesman for the department.
  — Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 21 June 2023
• However, there's no evidence the church was hosting a Pride event prior to the lightning strike.
  — Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
• In addition to the lightning strike, Caviezel was also toppled by a cross weighing over 150 pounds while filming.
  — Lauryn Overhultz, Fox News, 6 July 2023
• The race started Saturday but was suspended after 25 laps because of a lightning strike in the area.
  — Jay Cohen, Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2023
• Deaths are more likely to occur during lightning strike in the summertime in the afternoon or evening.
  — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 4 Mar. 2023
• Fire science is a complicated thing: A blaze might arise from a lightning strike, a hot car on tall summer grass, snapped power lines.
  — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 12 June 2023
• In April, a boat captain was killed in a lightning strike that hit his vessel off the central Florida coast near Orlando.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2023
• New moved back to Korea to start a pharmaceutical company, Yuhan Corp, and Smith was killed in a lightning strike.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 27 Mar. 2023
• Bosque County authorities said the father was pronounced dead at the time of the lightning strike, and Grayson was hospitalized.
  — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 17 June 2023
• Suppose, for example, that a lightning strike or a collision with a large bird damages a rotor blade.
  — Kamesh Namuduri, IEEE Spectrum, 8 July 2023
• Four years later, two people were injured in a lightning strike while watching fireworks in South Boston.
  — Sean Cotter, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
• The game will resume in 30 minutes unless another lightning strike is detected, in which case the 30-minute clock will reset.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 16 Sep. 2023
• Blake Lively stars as Adaline Bowman, a woman who dies in the 1930s but is revived by a lightning strike that also prevents her from aging.
  — Kevin Jacobsen and Sammi Burke, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2023
• The connection is not direct - rising carbon emissions in the atmosphere don't drop the cigarette, or down the power line, or create the lightning strike that sets things ablaze.
  — Shannon Osaka, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
• Defender Stefan Panic nearly hit a lightning strike just before the half.
  — Lynn Ramsey, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2023
• Two months out from an election, authorities are blaming the latest shortages on a lightning strike on a pumping station, and also pointing to the heat wave.
  — Sarah Dean, CNN, 24 Mar. 2024
• As memorable as her pink hair was a lightning strike Rapinoe authored, just three minutes after entering in the second half.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
• In 2021, the monument closed for at least four consecutive days because of a lightning strike that caused damage to its electrical system, which took days to repair.
  — Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024
• Sunday’s rainfall will be more scattered, but any showers that do move overhead will be capable of producing a stray lightning strike and heavy downpours.
  — Anthony Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2023
• More than 30 cows were killed in a lightning strike in northern Alabama Saturday, according to local news reports.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 2 July 2023
• However, things got off to a damp start after the stadium floor had to be evacuated due to a nearby lightning strike, as seen in a video posted on X (formerly known as Twitter).
  — Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024
• Hamas’s lightning strike on Israel last weekend has left observers questioning how the group financed the surprise operation.
  — WSJ, 10 Oct. 2023
• Now, traditionally, Indigenous peoples would light fires or allow a lightning strike to burn out.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• And although experts say today’s aircraft are built to withstand heavy wind shear and can generally pass a lightning strike through and out of a plane with little residual effect, these planes don’t fly empty.
  — Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
• Hannah acknowledged guests' frustrations when the park shuts down to wait out an electrical storm; rides and attractions close for 30 minutes after each lightning strike within 10 miles.
  — Aaron Gettinger, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024