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Lightning in sentence

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Because at this point in our history, as we've heard many times over, we can process exabytes of data at lightning speed, and we have the potential to make bad decisions far more quickly, efficiently, and with far greater impact than we did in the past.
At the end of lunch, they untie the anchor, they set off through the Baths of Caracalla and over the walls of the city and then an abandoned gatehouse and decide to take one more look at the Pyramid of Cestius, which has this lightning rod on top.
Because the sunshine kid was bright, with a warm personality, And inside he burned savagely Hurt by the words and curses of the shadowy folk who spoke holes in his soul and left cavities, And as his heart hardened, his spark darkened, Every time they called him names it cooled his flames, He thought they might like him if he kept his light dim But they were busy telling lightning she had terrible aim, He couldn’t quite get to grips with what they said, So he let his light be eclipsed by what they said, He fell into a Lone Star State like Texas, And felt like he’d been punched in his solar plexus.
In South Asia, if you enslave a poor person, you're at greater risk of being struck by lightning than ever being sent to jail for that crime.
What had happened is that one of her 170 followers had sent the Tweet to a Gawker journalist, and he retweeted it to his 15,000 followers: [And now, a funny holiday joke from IAC's PR boss] And then it was like a bolt of lightning.
More lightning, as the heat energy builds up, there's a considerable amount of additional lightning also.
In both, I'm searching for the same thing, though, to capture that lightning in a bottle.
I could taste the lightning.
We played in cardboard boxes as kids, and as adults, I'm hoping we can all find a little bit of that lightning by sticking our head in one again.
This was not just lightning.
Not only is there musical thunder and lightning, there are also more birds, wet, frightened, and unhappy.
"Picked a lightning bug off the drum."
So I made more videos and the subject matter of my videos was often the most divisive subject in American life, but it was the way that I articulated race that made me somewhat of a digital lightning rod.
But it's a lightning bolt compared to the snail's pace of language acquisition.
Claps of thunder and flashes of lightning illuminate a swelling sea, as a ship buckles beneath the waves.
For a moment, very much like the one between lightning and its sound, the children just stare at me, and then it comes, a flurry, a hail storm of answers – Flower, says one.
"The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.
More people are killed by pigs, by lightning strikes, more people are killed at soccer games in England.
You're either repelled by it, or you're struck with a lightning bolt of excitement.
His first target was K’awiil, god of sustenance and lightning.
And when I took a photograph and looked at the test shot, it was like a lightning bolt hit me in that moment, and I knew I was going to have to come back to create a whole series of installations on location and photograph them.
And it was just lightning fast; the way she was working was almost unbelievable.
Guns barking like lightning and thunder.
When it's really short, like six days, it moves like lightning.
I was afraid of lightning, insects, loud noises and costumed characters.
We also have the mathematics to describe how neurons collect information, and how they create a little lightning bolt to communicate with each other.
Or you could pay eight times the going rate for something called a lightning call.
But, lightning struck rather slowly in our country in those days, so, it was like about a half an hour for a lightning call to come through.
As someone who has spent his entire career trying to be invisible standing in front of an audience is a cross between an out-of-body experience and a deer caught in the headlights, so please forgive me for violating one of the TED commandments by relying on words on paper, and I only hope I'm not struck by lightning bolts before I'm done.
The cardboard sets, the moon kings with lightning bolts sewn onto their aprons, you know the drill.
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