How to Use thunderbolt in a Sentence

thunderbolt

noun

• He was struck dead by a thunderbolt.
• Carve up a bull, and Zeus won’t send a thunderbolt up your ass.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 2 Oct. 2017
• Just a thunderbolt of a play gives Kansas City the lead.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
• There’s a lot more to this saga than a missing thunderbolt.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2023
• Doug met Ashley and felt like he'd been struck by a thunderbolt.
  — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2021
• Eating lunch one day, mid-chew, the answer came to him like a thunderbolt.
  — April Reynolds, Bon Appétit, 12 Apr. 2022
• But before first pitch, there was a thunderbolt of news.
  — Pete Grathoff, kansascity, 10 Aug. 2017
• The first one arrived with a thunderbolt scar on her from mating.
  — Maria Finn, Longreads, 28 Aug. 2017
• The first play of the second half brought more issues for the Vikings’ special teams, courtesy of a thunderbolt from their past.
  — Ben Goessling, Star Tribune, 17 Nov. 2020
• Changes on the outside, such as stripping away a thunderbolt port.
  — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• The cross is the thunderbolt smashing your heart into a million pieces.
  — Atlanta Life, ajc, 17 Nov. 2017
• The electric songs that would comprise Fear of the Dawn, his Beefheartian thunderbolt of an album, spilled out.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 1 Apr. 2022
• Max also wore a navy blue top with a red thunderbolt graphic, grey sweatpants, and a blue hat.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 5 June 2023
• To him, that's scoring a 30-yard thunderbolt into the top corner.
  — SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• This thunderbolt detail brings us to the death teaser in Thor 4 trailer 2.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 30 May 2022
• Among such myths was the idea that thunderbolts were material objects that fell from the sky.
  — Steph Yin, New York Times, 11 June 2018
• Zeus is portrayed as a mighty god, thunderbolt in hand, ruling from atop a high mountain.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• Moments later, a thunderbolt struck the spot where power lines entered the home.
  — Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2021
• And there might be other reasons why Valkyrie has Zeus’s thunderbolt in Thor 4 trailer 2.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 30 May 2022
• The arrests were a thunderbolt, but they could not be called a surprise, certainly not to Mr. Abdel-Razek.
  — New York Times, 30 Nov. 2020
• The script saves some of its most fiery material for them, the kind of thunderbolt Sorkin-isms that land with a satisfying crack.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• Riyad Mahrez's thunderbolt opened the scoring in the first half but Vardy's first penalty of the afternoon leveled the scores just before halftime.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 27 Sep. 2020
• Kyle Dugger just delivered a thunderbolt of a pick-6, stepping in front of a Carr pass and taking it 13 yards for a touchdown.
  — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Dec. 2022
• In one decisive motion, like Zeus hurling a thunderbolt, my hero severed the snake in two.
  — Grant Sutton, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022
• Rashford was at the heart of every England attack during his time on the pitch at Elland Road, and opened the scoring with a thunderbolt from outside the box.
  — SI.com, 10 June 2018
• This year, even as seen on TV, the theatre felt supercharged with just and righteous anger that seemed ready to burst forth in mighty thunderbolts of apt invective.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• Pikachu’s thunderbolt struck America in 1998 and changed the lives of a generation.
  — Eric Margolis, Vox, 2 July 2019
• The college football gods seemed to zap the unbeaten Bruins with a thunderbolt of misery based on what would happen during the next 25 years.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• The first jolt of stress coming out of the rocks sends a shock wave hurtling into Northern California and southern Oregon like a thunderbolt.
  — Jerry Thompson, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2012
• The name of the path is slightly ill-omened, since Zeus killed Phaethon with a thunderbolt after the boy failed to control a chariot belonging to his father, Helios, the sun god.
  — Charlotte Higgins, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024