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Lightning in sentence

278 examples of Lightning in a sentence

And early on, a lightning bolt hit a tree 20 paces away from us.
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And lightning struck.
Some of the crackles and pops were lightning, but the eerie whistles and curiously melodious chirps had a rather more exotic origin.
They turned out to be lightning or sources of electrical power.
How could this have gone by like lightning?
He would stand triumphantly in front of it, and it would flash lights like a lightning bolt.
There are 44 lightning strikes per second around the globe.
Experiments suggest that lightning could be the next GPS.
Lightning lit the sky, and a baby was born.
Yes, we are 97 percent less likely to be killed by a bolt of lightning.
When it comes to Spanish flu, those stories are common, of lightning speed deaths.
So a river is designed to channel the flow of water, and the lightning bolt that comes out of a cloud channels the flow of electricity, and a leaf is designed to channel the flow of nutrients to the tree, sometimes even having to route around an obstacle, but to get that nutrition flowing.
It's struck by lightning.
Maybe you've got a swimmer and a rowboat and a sailboat and a tugboat and you set them off on their way, and the rains come and the lightning flashes, and oh my gosh, there are sharks in the water and the swimmer gets into trouble, and, uh oh, the swimmer drowned and the sailboat capsized, and that tugboat, well, it hit the rocks, and maybe if you're lucky, somebody gets across.
I've learned to respect the lightning.
It's what's produces thunder and lightning and hail.
There's no formula for capturing lightning in a bottle.
See, smart cities, music cities, know that thriving nightlife, a creative class, culture is what attracts young, talented people to cities. It's what brings that lightning.
And it was like a lightning bolt.
He brought us bifocals and the lightning rod, and of course there was his collaboration on the invention of American democracy.
The chance in the last few years of being killed by terrorism is far less than the chance of being killed by lightning.
And decades of data give us the view of our entire planet as a single organism sustained by currents circulating throughout the oceans and by clouds swirling through the atmosphere, pulsing with lightning, crowned by the aurora Borealis.
And suddenly, like a bolt of lightning, the answer came to him.
Have lightning on their tongues, fly whisks as weapons.
In such a brutal environment, entrepreneurs learn to grow very rapidly, they learn to make their products better at lightning speed, and they learn to hone their business models until they're impregnable.
These branching patterns that we see we see across all forms, scales of nature, from river deltas to lightning strikes, from our own blood vessels to neural networks.
But I've realized, by watching so long, that luck is rarely a lightning strike, isolated and dramatic.
So, yes, sometimes people were born into terrible circumstances, and sometimes, luck is a lightning bolt that hits us with something wonderful or something terrible.
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